 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 422 pages
...they were confined and threatened with death in" a foreign land, then did better reflections arise ; " and they " said one to another, we are verily guilty...hear ; therefore is this " distress come upon us." Afflictions, by thus awakening our attention, and quickening a sense of sin and a sorrow for it, yield... | |
 | 1809 - 1152 pages
...youngest brother unto me ; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 21 f k to pay it : for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee ; and it would be sin 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child'; and... | |
 | 1852 - 862 pages
...the shade of Joseph. On their former visit to Egypt, when placed in temporary confinement, they had said one to another, " We are verily guilty concerning...would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.'1 Now, their sin comes again to their remembrance. It seems to be brought home to them. One brother,... | |
 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pages
...and they said one to another in their own language, (which they supposed he' did not understand,) " We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us." They looked upon Joseph, as an austere man, and they well knew that he, being governor of the country,... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 416 pages
...that their hearts were not callous to remorse. He had overheard them, when, in their embarrassment, they said one to another, " We are verily guilty concerning...his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear him ; therefore, is this distress come upon us." He had heard the eldest brother thus upbraid the rest,... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 534 pages
...anxiety and suspicion, in a strange land ; and shall say with the brethren of Joseph, ice are verity guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the...not hear : therefore is this distress come upon us*. God who found out the iniquity of Joseph's brethren, and at last opened their eyes to see and confess... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...divine government. This is the very language of their hearts, when they were brought to repentance. "And they said one to another, We are verily guilty...not hear: therefore is this distress come upon us." They saw the intrinsic turpitude, malignity, and criminality of their intentions and designs, and with... | |
 | 1812 - 682 pages
...Prosperity is an opiate to the conscience ; in / the day of adrersity we connect suffering with guilt; " we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear, therefore is this distress come upon us." Affliction recals to duty those, whom the bounty of Providence could not keep in the ways of the Lord... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 668 pages
...Prosperity ,is an opiate to the conscience ; io the day of adversity we connect Buffering with guilt ; " we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that...not hear, therefore is this distress come upon us." Affliction recals to duty those, whom thi bounty of Providence could not keep in the ways of the Lord... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...cruel and unnatural treatment of their brother, as the procuring cause of their present calamities. "They said one to another, we are verily guilty concerning...not hear: Therefore is this distress come upon us." All men thus feel the natural connexion between moral evil and physical, between sinning and suffering,... | |
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And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 
