 | 1840 - 1122 pages
...Patriarch thus cast the sunshine of his own mind upon the path by which the hand of God had led him. " I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of...over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands." In life, as in the landscape, it is not so much the objects we contemplate, as the light in which we... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pages
...lay himself low, and exalt his God high. So did Jacob when God had raised and enlarged him ; " I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of...over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands," Gen. xxxii. 10. Great was the difference in Jacob's outward condition at his return, from what it was... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...xxxii. 10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant : for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands. Psal. cxliv. 3. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ! or the son of man, that thou... | |
 | John Arrowsmith - 1822 - 410 pages
...Jacob, " 1 am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant: for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, -and now I am become two bands."* David, " Thou hast been my help, leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 442 pages
...Jacob. " / am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant : for with my staff" I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands" His danger, from the hostile intentions of Esau, had driven the patriarch to the throne of grace; yet... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...of the least of all the mercies, " and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; " deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from "the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he will come and 1' smite me and the mother with the children." This was an instance of common... | |
 | 1865 - 346 pages
...our lowly origin in that distant Northumbrian village, am often reminded of what Jacob said, ' I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of...over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.' " I had often resolved that if I should be spared to see my seventieth birthday, I would give up business.... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1824 - 284 pages
...alone art the source of all human happiness. Then may we each say, with the patriarch of old* — "I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of...the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant." JANUARY 4. OF THE VARIOUS USES OF FIRE. FIRE is, in some degree, the chief agent in the prosecution... | |
 | 1038 pages
...have adverted, hrought to his mind, his past history during that period of time, and he said, ' I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of...I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two hands.' " I would away with anything that savours of human vanity and pride on such an occasion as... | |
 | Outlines - 1825 - 288 pages
...next acknowledges his total un worthiness of all mercy, " I am not worthy of the least of all these mercies ; and of all the truth which thou hast showed...over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands." Language cannot express an humbler frame ; and whensoever the Holy Ghost instructs a sinner, the heart... | |
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I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant, for with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands. 
