 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1815 - 694 páginas
...passengers for the company on the account of freight, and so to be delivered here, but though the lot be cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord : here was to appearance a notable contrivance for great advantage ; but time and chance happens to... | |
 | 1842
...therefore " the blessing of the Lord, which maketh rich and addeth no sorrow with it," and although " the lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." The full conviction of this truth will suggest a further important reflection, viz., 3. That the inordinate... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 páginas
...excep were given thee from above : th fore he that delivered me unto 1 hath the greater sin. Prov. xvi. The lot is cast into the lap ; the whole disposing thereof is of Lord. II. <J Acts xv. 18. Known i God are all his works from beginning of the world. 1 J xxiii. 11.... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 páginas
...hast got the earnest which secures the prize of the high calling; the greatest of all great benefits. The lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Spirit, w.ho is our part and lot in this matter, Acts vjii. 21; and does condescend to manifest himself... | |
 | William Huntington - 1812 - 402 páginas
...hast got th« earnest which secures the prize of the high calling; the greatest of all great benefits. The lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Spirit, M'ho is our part and lot in i.his matter, Acts viii. 21; and does condescend to manifest himself... | |
 | David Collyer - 1815 - 368 páginas
...was not as yet given in an extraordinary manner to direct them : and by this means (forasmuch as when the lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord") the person chosen into the apostleship did not want the characteristic of an apostle, being chosen... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 páginas
...are numbered ;" that " a sparrow doth not fall to the ground without him ;•' and that ••' when the lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." But the -llh and most striking argument for the truth of this doctrine arises from this principle,... | |
 | 1843 - 684 páginas
...the head of his old guard; but the moral of his history is in far better keeping as it now stands. " The lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing...Lord :" kingdoms and cottages, Princes and peasants 'like the objects. The man beside me, who had been dragged ro reluctant alarm before the Emperor, and... | |
 | 1819 - 996 páginas
...to those which are natural or casual, what is more contingent in itself than a lot ? And yet, when " The lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." |] Examples of this are to be found in the cases of Achan and of Saul.f The will of the Most High is... | |
 | 1842 - 982 páginas
...swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor riches to men of understanding. Time and chance happen to all. The lot is cast into the lap, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. He is our common Father — and like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that... | |
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... enterprises, and was forced to vomit up what he had wrongfully swallowed down. The ship he had bought in his own name, and set out at his own charge, upon hopes of great matters, by taking in goods and passengers for the company on the account of... 
