 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 518 pages
...his word has been disregarded. Hence he said of his people of old, " I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early." The men of wisdom, who see and know the name of God ; that is, those who know and love the character,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 514 pages
...purpose to bring them to a due sense of their dependence upon him. " I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early." This end, which God proposed in afflicting his people, the prophet tells us was completely answered,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...was it better with me than now, &c. — Hosea ii. 6 — 8; v. 15. 1 will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early. Come, and let us return unto the Lord ; he hath torn, and he will heal us ; he hath smitten, and he... | |
 | Bible - 1842 - 452 pages
...vii. 24. $ 2 Thess. ii. 8. offence" — or, as it reads in the margin, " till tltey be guilty of this offence " — " and seek my face : in their affliction they will seek me early." The sentiment conveyed to my understanding is this : the Lord, by the mouth of the prophet, is speaking... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1851 - 568 pages
...souls ;" for, in another prophecy, God hath as surely written, " I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face ; in their affliction they will seek me early." But this last quoted passage clearly indicates The second means of reviving, which we must ever make... | |
 | 1843 - 480 pages
...therefore, either as a prevention of sin, or • correction for it : " I will go, and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face ; in their affliction they will seek me early.''r Or it is a rebuke for some duty omitted, or some object idolized. Yon will do well, therefore,... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1843 - 328 pages
...away, and none shall deliver. 15 I will go back to my place, Till they have suffered for their sin, and seek my face ; In their affliction they will seek me early. 1 " Come, and let us return to Jehovah ! " For he hath torn, and he will heal us ; " He hath smitten,... | |
 | David Laing - 1844 - 98 pages
...confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy." Prov. xxviii. 13. " I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me early." Has. v. 15. 39. Show me, also, that God calls us, as a Church, to come before Him with prayer and praise.... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...Divine displeasure, which can only flow from sin, Hosea v. 15 : "I will go, and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face ; in their affliction they will seek me early." And such calamity is vastly augmented when the subject of the leanness is insensible to his condition.... | |
 | William GILLSON - 1844 - 266 pages
...God let him answer it." The Divine Being speaking of Israel says, " I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face ; in their affliction they will seek me early." Circumstances of affliction are very favourable to serious thoughts. Many go carelessly on till affliction... | |
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Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 
