...it becomes me to say, I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him ; wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Reader, if you are a Christian, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,...

...and grace for grace ! SHALL THE LIVING COMPLAIN? I. — SHALL THE SINFUL COMPLAIN? "Wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" He is still permitted to dwell in the land of the living, and therefore within the reach of the pardoning...

...repine or murmur. The Judge of the whole Earth hath done nothing but what is right ; and why should a living man complain — a man for the punishment of his sins ? I concluded my Address at his grave with these words — "FAREWELL, ye honoured ashes of a much and...

...medicines presented by the Physician of the soul — we are dead to this just reproach ; Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? and still more insensible are we to those sure marks of the divine favour, that the Lord chasteneth...

...complaints, whilst thou hast thy life for a prey. Remember that word of the afflicted church, Lam. iii. 39. " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?" A man living, a man upon the earth, a man out of hell hath no cause to complain, whatever be his...

...causes of his rods upon them, so they have freely and ingenuously confessed and acknowledged the same. " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord," Lam. iii. 39. " There is no soundness...

...so great a deathL and doth deliver ; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver. Lam. iii. 39 — 44. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up Our heart with our hands...

...he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. Lam. iii. 58. 18—26. 31—33. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain ? a man for the punishment of his sins? O that thou would est hide me in the grave [of Jesus], that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy...

...yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. (5 Job. 6, 7.) 2. Is affliction caused by sin? Wherefore doth a living man complain; a man for the punishment of his sins? (3 Lam. 39.) 3. Should a sense of our sinfulness render us humble and resigned under affliction? Rejoice...

...its absorbing duties. In a severe paroxysm Mr. Smart exclaimed, " Anything short of hell is mercy. ' Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his gins?'" During the last week of his life he was favoured with calm and holy triumph, and never once...