| George Fox - 1831 - 428 pages
...servant came near and said to him, " 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 unto thee, wash and be clean ?" whereupon he went and washed seven times, and was cured : and so he... | |
| Lucy Barton - 1831 - 188 pages
...them, and be clean ?" so he turned away in a rage. His servants then came near, and said to him, " 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." Naaman... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...CCCLXV. NAAMAN HEALED OF HIS LEPROSY. 2 Kings v. 13. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do...rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? MEN universally claim a right to " do what they will with their own;" but they are extremely averse... | |
| Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...be clean ? 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...rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean ? 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage ; and Ms servants came near and spake unto him, the f How much rather then, when he saith to thee, wash and be clean ? Then went he down and dipped himself... | |
| Thomas Boys - 1832 - 386 pages
...Kings, and read the history of the cleansing of Naaman the Syrian ; and when I came to the 13th verse, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? — I let these words follow : DearFather,you are really just likeNaaman!... | |
| Thomas Charlton Henry - 1833 - 340 pages
...of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" And the force of his ser- • vant's answer, " My father, if the Prophet had bid thee do some great...rather then, when he saith to thee, wash and be clean ?" But there may be a period in our history, reached before this, when we are able to look back, and... | |
| 1833 - 764 pages
...prophet had told him to do. They said to him, " If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, woutdest thou not have done it ? how much rather, then, when he saith to thee, wash and be clean." When Naaman heard them speak thus, he thought he would try, and he went and dipped himself in the river... | |
| Author of The infant Christian's first catechism - 1833 - 238 pages
...they came up to him and said, " My father, if the prophet had bade 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 were wise words, and Naaman listened to them. He went down and dipped himself seven times in... | |
| John Sheppard - 1833 - 404 pages
...attendant to the Syrian captain, which has been often alluded to by divines in this connexion, — " My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it?"* Yet, while the simplicity of any principle or means, and therefore... | |
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