...arise and go to my Father ? does he say, I have sinned against thee, O Lord? — Wherefore, then, shall a living man complain? — a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn unto the Lord, for he will still hear ? — Is this his language...

...Samuel, i. 19. How are the mighty fallen 1 Percy Chapel. Lamentations, iii. 99, 40, 41. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lilt up our heart with our hands...

...iniquity,/ and humble ourselves under thy mighty hand,m and say that the Lord is righteous. re Wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins lo No ; we will bear the indignation of the Lord, because we have sinned against C 10. J We must give...

...RESIGNATION TO GOD'S HOLY WILL must be added to the humble use of all the means of grace. For, wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? God's ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts. To reach henven at last, though under...

...commanded! it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth use ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold ? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our...

...relations, as to be authorised to expect no breach of duty should occur towards myself? Rather can J, " a living man, complain, — a man for the punishment of his sins ?" O here is not c5 my rest! — it is polluted — I have helped to pollute it. " I am a pilgrim and...

...deserts ! Let me think on the reason I have for patience and submission to the will of God. " Shall a living man complain, a man " for the punishment of his sins ?" (Lam. iii. 39.) What are these pains, compared with what I might feel ! What are these pains, compared...

...relations, as to be authorised to expect no breach of duty should occur towards myself? Rather can I, " a living man, complain, — a man for the punishment of his sins :""' O here is not c5 my rest! — it is polluted — I have helped to pollute it. " I am a pilgrim...

...invaluable medicines presented by the Physician of the soul — we are dead to this just reproach ; Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? and still more insensible are we to those sure marks of the divine favour, that the Lord chasteneth...

...blessings, and grace for grace ! SHALL THE LIVING COMPLAIN? I. — SHALL THE SINFUL COMPLAIN? "Wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" He is still permitted to dwell in the land of the living, and therefore within the reach of the pardoning...