| William Chillingworth - 1820 - 510 pages
...published throughout Nineveh, by the decree of the King, and of his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing ; let them...with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God ; yea, let every one turn from his evil way, and from the violence which is in their hands : who can tell, if... | |
| George Fox - 1821 - 420 pages
...or flock, taste any thing, let them not feed, or drink water ; but let man and beast VOL. IV.— 51 be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God...the violence that is in their hands, who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his (ierce anger, that we perish not. And God saw their... | |
| London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1821 - 470 pages
...as in the Ninevites of old, that they may " cry mightily unto God ; " yea, that every one may turn from his evil way, and from the " violence that is in their hands !'' The consequence of which was, that " God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way,"... | |
| 1822 - 872 pages
...proclaimed and published through Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them...the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will return and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not." Our Saviour alludes... | |
| John Bunyan - 1823 - 546 pages
...proclaimed and published through Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles; saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them not feed nor drink water, Jonah iii. 9,6. But besides these solemn and public fasts, we read of some private men who practised... | |
| E B. Lloyd - 1823 - 116 pages
...the fast which was proclaimed by the king of Nineveh, extended to brute creatures : " Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water," (Jonah iii. 7.) which was probably their common custom in rigorous fasts. Perhaps some practice of... | |
| 1823 - 430 pages
...in sackcloth and ashes ! May it, like that wicked and devoted city, " cry mightily tmto God ' " arid turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence " that is on their heads: for who can tell but that God will " turn from hisfierce anger, and ye perish not ?... | |
| Thom Scott - 1824 - 680 pages
...Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles, " — Let them turn every one from the evil of his " way, and from the violence that is in their hands ; " who can tell, if God will turn, and repent, and " turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish " not ? " l In like... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...me, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. — Jonah ii. 7. Let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God, &c. Whocan tell if God will turn? &c. And they prevailud.-Jonah iii. 8-10. Seek ye the Lord, all ye... | |
| William Penn - 1825 - 632 pages
...proclaimed and published through Nineveh, (by the decree of the king and his nobles) saying, let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing; let them...violence that is in their hands. Who can tell, if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not. And God saw their... | |
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