 | James Inglis - 1820 - 406 sivua
...it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?"* "What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what profit should we have if we pray unto him?"f Such expressed or implied, is the language of multitudes. But it is, in all who use it, the... | |
 | Moral essays - 1821 - 188 sivua
...uttered by the mouth, yet too often lurks in the hearts of many during thejr flourishing periods. " What is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him ?" ' Jf such be the tendency of the house of feasting, how necessary is it, that by some change in... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 sivua
...say unto them, These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone. Ye have said, ' Wh at is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him ? ' I know you that ye have not the love of God in you. Then others will come saying, Lord, behold... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 sivua
...day. " They spend their days in wealth,'' says Job, " Therefore they say unto God depart from us ; what is the Almighty that we should serve him ; and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him?" But are real saints ready to be ensnared into such sins by the... | |
 | Abraham Booth - 1822 - 280 sivua
...in the book of Job, who say to God, ' Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty that we should serve him ? and...what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?'* Neither the commands of the divine law, though the strictest and purest imaginable, nor all the vengeance... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - 516 sivua
...uttered by the mouth, yet too often lurks in the hearts of many, during their flourishing periods, JVhat is the Almighty that we should serve him ? and 'what profit should we have, if we pray unto him ? If such be the tendency of the house of feasting, how necessary is it, that, by some change in their... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - 498 sivua
...uttered by the mouth, yet too often lurks in the hearts of many, during their flourishing periods, What is the Almighty that we should serve him ? and 'what profit should we have, if we pray unto Mm ? If such be the tendency of the house of feasting, how necessary is it, that, by some change in... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 470 sivua
...uttered by the mouth, yet too often lurks in the hearts of many, during their flourishing period. What in the Almighty that we should serve him ; and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him ? If such be the tendency of the*house of feasting, how necessary is it, that, by some change in their... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 sivua
...says, " Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ; and what profit should we have, if w« pray unto him ? " Numerous have been the instance) in which the efforts of the Distributors to... | |
 | 1842 - 1128 sivua
...Curse him." He did not forget the time, but went with his usual purpose'. Mr. Coussins's text was, " What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit shall we have, if we pray unto him?" (Job xxi. 15.) The text arrested hi» attention, and soon the... | |
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They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray... 
