 | Jews - Bible - 1840 - 212 pages
...Known that the heavens do rule. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor ; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. Whatever impression might at the moment have been... | |
 | 1846 - 446 pages
...a suitable exhortation. ' Wherefore now, 0 king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility.' It does not appear that this exhortation had the desired... | |
 | New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) - Indians of North America - 1841 - 108 pages
...PHILADELPHIA, AND BALTIMORE. '' Wherefore, O King, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity." Daniel iv. 27. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY MERRIHEW ANDTHOMPSON,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1841 - 772 pages
...Hengstenbcrg shows clearly that the true sense is that which our own translation gives — u Break olì' thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor." The adversary has the credit, therefore, not of the objection only, but of the fault objected to !... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1843 - 404 pages
...advises an immediate reformation. " Wherefore, 0 King, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be the lengthening of thy tranquility." Nebuchadnezzar was an ambitious prince, filled with... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1845 - 760 pages
...of the guilt, we are taught to ransom by satisfactions. For Daniel exhorted Nebuchadnezzar : " Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor," (Dan. iv. 27.) And Solomon says, " By mercy and truth iniquity is purged," (Prov. xvi. 6;) and again,... | |
 | John Bovee Dods - Sermons, American - 1845 - 374 pages
...known that the heavens do rule. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the... | |
 | James Thomas O'Brien (bp. of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin.) - 1846 - 414 pages
...as a part of the Scriptural proof of it, Dan. iv. 27, is quoted. The text is thus given : " Redeem thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor." And upon " redeem" we have the following note :— " The same sense would result from the English version... | |
 | Protestantism - 1847 - 648 pages
...win continue to punish. " Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord" — " Break, , off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor ; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity."* When we neglect doing this, God is. exceed- !|... | |
 | William Jackson - Clergy - 1847 - 422 pages
...needeth." * Obedience in this respect, is absolutely essential to the formation of a holy character. "Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor."t Without the spirit and practice of benevolence, we are wanting in one main evidence of an interest... | |
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Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. 
