 | Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 276 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. — Are not Ahana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. Then his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, My... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...foolishest, vainest, and absurdest things in the world. He said, " Are Abanaand Parphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage." Nevertheless, upon being better advised, he tried the experiment,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abaua and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...hand over " the place, and recover the leper. Are not ", Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, " better than all the waters of Israel ? May " I not wash in them, and be clean*?" So reasoned this wise man; and so would any other wise man of modern times have reasoned on this occasion.... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 424 pages
...leper, when he was ordered to wash in Jordan, objected, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? — May I not wash in them and be clean ? The same humour often opposes the doctrines, as well as institutions of God. Some hastily reject... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...strike his hand owr the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abaoa and .Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in •them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a 'rage. And bis servants' came near, and spake unto him, and P 3 saidi... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1812 - 424 pages
...COME OUT tome," and perform certain ceremonies, " and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Phhrpar, rivers of Damascus (in mine own country) better than...prophet, and to try the appointed mode of cure, however simp'tt it might be. After a struggle with himself, his pride and reluctance were in some degree subdued,... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...faith of Christ ;" and many a surly Naaman exclaims, " Are not Abana and Pharpar, " rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of " Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So " he turned, and went away in a rage." And the same is to be*seen in the world of Providence.... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 706 pages
...strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? may I not wash in them, and be clean ? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said,... | |
 | John Allen - 1816 - 726 pages
...free way of salvation by Christ. " What, (saith hej are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel ? May I not wash in them and be clean ?" So perhaps, dear reader, thou art ready to say, Are not good works, a sober and religious life,... | |
| |
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? 
