 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...went away in a rage. 13. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, " My father, " If the prophet had bid thee do some " great thing, wouldest...then, " when he saith to thee, " Wash and " be clean ?" 1 4. Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...expostulation proceeded from the mouth of heathens, it may have the greater weight : (2 Kings v. 13.) " If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest...rather then, when he saith to thee, wash, and be clean ?" Apollos, the eloquent Jew, was mighty in the Scriptures, knowing only the baptism of John (Acts... | |
 | 1824 - 808 pages
...which accurately tells the hours of the day. "If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? How much rather, then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean !" If the laws for securing the rights of creditors were repealed, there would be no loans without... | |
 | Robert Robinson - 1824 - 450 pages
...case what was said in another, " My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? How much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean ?" Can any man say, 1 hope to prosper, I expect also to suffer, I sometimes blame my conduct, and have... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pages
...respectfully, and urgently : " My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? How much rather then, when he saith, Wash and be clean ?" By God's blessing, this good advice prevailed, and Naaman did as he was bidden;... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them, Matt. xi. 4, 5. Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times...according to the saying of the man of God : and his fiesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean, 2 Kings v. 14. And when he... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...attendants remonstrated with hin; " My father, if the prophet had bid thec do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? How much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?" And thus oftentimes it is that the very easiness of God's commands causes mankind to slight them. Had... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 568 pages
...expostulated with him thus, 2 Kings v. 13. "If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, wash and be clean ?" So may not I say, had more difficult means been prescribed by God, should not you, sinners, seriously... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...•expostulated with him thus, 2 Kings v. 13. " If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, wash and be clean ?" So may not I say, had more difficult means been prescribed by God, should not you, sinners, seriously... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1825 - 714 pages
...him, and spake to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean." These men were servants, not of the humour, but of the profit of their master. Some servile spirits... | |
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So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean? 
