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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... "
The Christian Disciple - Page 11
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The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher...: With a Life of the Author...

James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...sorrows. " Theyk" (saith he) " 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 unto him." But whatsoever their knowledge is, it is, sure, an accursed knowledge,...
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Two discourses: the first, Of man's enmity to God ... The second, Of the ...

Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 pages
...of the duty. If God does not answer us, naturally we cast off the duty, and say with those in Job, What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should ire have, if we pray to him, Job 21. 1.5. They pray not out of conscience of the command, but...
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Village sermons

George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...cords from us ;" 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 unto him?" Job xxi. 15. All natural men are, like the prodigal, men of the...
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Sermons, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 2

Henry Hunter - Sermons - 1804 - 372 pages
...themselves to be strangers to God, and at enmity with him, and yet have learned the unhappy art of saying, " What is the Almighty " that we should serve him, and what profit should " we have if we pray unto him ?" And no less miserable is the situation of those, who build...
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A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament: With Devotional ..., Volume 4

Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...consequence of this, they say unto God, Depart from us ; for we de15 sire 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 ? this is in effect their language, they think they oiue him no...
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A Scripture Account of the Faith and Practice of Christians: Consisting of ...

Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...arise and call upon thy God. CCIII. Offirayerlessfiersonsiorofnotfiraying. Job xxi. 15. The wicked say, what is the Almighty that we should serve him ? and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him '. Mai. iii. 14. xxxvi. 13. Hypocrites cry not when he bindeth them. Ps. x. 4. The wicked through the...
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A Statement of the Proceedings of the Presbytery of Glasgow: Relative to the ...

Glasgow (Scotland) - 1808 - 308 pages
...say unto God, depart from us, for me desire not " the knowledge of thy ways; what is the Almigh" ty, that we should serve him ? and what profit shall " we have, if we pray unto him * ? Yet can take " the Timbrel and the Harp, and rejoice at the sound " of the Organ." When, therefore,...
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The Works of President Edwards ...

Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...of. The language of their hearts is, " Who is the Lord, that I Should obey his voice ?" Exod. v. 2. " What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should we have if we pray unto him ?'" Job. xxi. 15. They count him worthy neither to be loved nor...
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The second Exodus; or Reflections on the prophecies of the last times, Volume 2

William Ettrick - 1810 - 608 pages
...superstitious fools adore. So Job represents the atheistical impiety of prospering s,nners : — " What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit shall we have, if we pray unto him J"— Job xxi. 15. don. " The Lord knoweth both how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to...
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Sermons on Important Subjects

Thomas Williams - Bible - 1810 - 244 pages
...water ? Do we not say unto God, " Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways ? Who is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him ?" Do we not possess the carnal mind, which is enmity against God ? for it is not subject to the law...
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