...blessings ? Complaints, I know, are unpleasing, how. ever just; but now not more unpleasing than necessary. Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of contention ; Jer. xv. 10. I must cry out in this sad day, of the sins of my people. The searchers of...

...Complaints, I know, are unpleasing, however just; but now not more unpleasing than necessary. 1 foe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of contention ; Jer. xv. 10. I must cry out in this sad day, of the sins of my people. The searchers of...

...they cannot deceive them, they despise, hate, ridicule, and even curse them ! as it is written, " Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth ! for every one of them doth curse me!" Jer. xv. 10. If the guardian angels of these little ones...

...like an iron pillar or a brazen wall. Though we may have some cause to complain, as Jeremiah did, " Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and contention ;" yet this is lawful strife. Fifthly, It is usual for those who are called out of the common...

...shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him," (c, xx. 7, 8, 10.) And elsewhere, " Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth. I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury : yet every one of them doth...

...the pressure of a ministry so distressful, he exclaims, " Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth." chap. xv. 10. He does more. He forms the resolution of renouncing a ministry which has become...

...neither have I desired the " woeful day thou knowest :" " Woe is me, my mo" ther, that thou hast born me a man of strife and " a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have * Isaiah, xli. 15, 16. f 2 Corinthians, vii. 8—16. 20 " neither lent on usury, nor...

...confounded : and the residue «f them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD. 10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury ; yet every one of them doth...

...with the plaintive prophet, when he feelingly exclaims, " Wo is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury ; yet every one of them doth...

...; and the Minister of the Great Design, the Messenger of the Covenant, the Prince of Peace, is made a Man of Strife, and a Man of Contention, to the whole earth. * But however the ignorance, the passions and presumption of men may have limited, debased,...