 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 564 pages
...do, but pour out floods of tears, towards the quenching of it ; and say, with the lamenting Prophet, Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night, for the slain of the daughter of my People ! Jer ix. 1. But, as Chrysostom said long ago in the like case to Innocentius, It is not wailing will... | |
 | 1837 - 324 pages
...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and...adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they hend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth.... | |
 | 1837 - 324 pages
...my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave rny people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers,...men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for Ires: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth. 13: 17. If ye will not hear, my soul shall... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...almost at a loss, for he seems to have wept throughout, and notwithstanding he exclaims, weeping, " Oh ! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Oh! what samples these are of holy fervour in preaching, and of deep anxiety for the unconverted ! We have... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pages
...recklessness usually testified on matters of eternal moment. His language will be that of the prophet : " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people" (Jer. ix. 1). His feeling will be that of the apostle, when he told his Philippian converts, weeping,... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...boasted illumination of the age in which we live ? Who will not adopt the Prophet's language, and say, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people !" Jer. ix. 1. Who is on the Lord's side ? Is, then, Christianity changed within the last fifty years... | |
 | Walter Henry Medhurst - 1838 - 646 pages
...one third of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of this people." There are, doubtless, amongst such a vast concourse of human beings, numbers, who, according... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1838 - 1174 pages
...sinking Monarch. He " looked for Peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and behold troubles ! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of...might leave my people, and go from them, for they be an Assembly of treacherous men." END OF VOLUME FIRST. ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. NOTE I. p.... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1838 - 462 pages
...Jeremiah ; I could say with the former, " I am distressed for thee, my brother," and with the latter, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people !" Nothing could be more lovely than the gradually narrowing banks of Waterford... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1838 - 452 pages
...Jeremiah ; I could say with the former, " I am distressed for thee, my brother," and with the latter, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people !" Nothing could be more lovely than the gradually narrowing banks of Waterford... | |
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Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people... 
