| Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1826 - 488 páginas
...salvation they would choose, with that which the unfathomable love of God has provided in his Son. Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ; may I not wash in them and be clean ? ' Folly and pride strive for place in a natural heart, and it is hard to say, whether is most predominant... | |
| John Pridham - 1826 - 376 páginas
...or undervalue those " wells of salvation" which he hath opened unto us ; and to say with disdain, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean m ?" Let the preaching of the word, and all the means of grace, be regarded as Divine appointments,... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 páginas
...Feeling and thought came forth to bless, And hear with awe the voice of God. NAAMAN'S PRIDE AND FOLLY. " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?"— 2 Kings, v. 12. THUS arrogant, and thus absurd Was he who then the prophet heard : We blame his... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 páginas
...place, and recover the leper. dZZL 12 Are not § Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, '• *• Anu"a- better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 518 páginas
...of temptations, they can hardly be brought unto a compliance therewithal. They are ready to say, ' Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel?' Is it not better to betake ourselves and to trust unto our own promises, resolutions,... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 366 páginas
...urgency of temptations, they can hardly be brought to a compliance therewithal. They are ready to say, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" Is it not better to betake ourselves, and to trust to our own promises, resolutions,... | |
| N W. Oliver - 1826 - 338 páginas
...act as merely believing, and to say in the proud spirit of Naaman, when desired to bathe in Jordan, ' Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel.' I remember hearing my father say, that he thought un~ 1 belief was so deeply rooted... | |
| Edward Patteson - 1826 - 389 páginas
...that so much spiritual importance should be assigned to them?' In the same spirit spake Naaraan. " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?"' Little was he aware, by what authority he was directed to wash in Jordan. As little... | |
| 1827 - 392 páginas
...it be such an interposition, as shall proclaim the worthiness and importance of the objects of hia kindness, no less than the omnipotence, and majesty,...rebel, bound over to everlasting perdition. To him, hia Father's house has no attractions ; his Father's presence creates in his bosom only gloom, and... | |
| 1827 - 600 páginas
...natural fitness and virtue in river water to cure the leprosy, Naaman reasoned well when he said, " are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better...waters of Israel; may I not wash in them and be clean?" But upon the supposition that means depend wholly on God for their efficacy, his reasoning had no reason... | |
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