...swallowed up of grief, nor cast yourselves into despair ; let us rather say with the prophet Jeremiah, 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...

...T. preached a sermon on the occasion, from Lam. iii. 39, 40, 41. by request of the bereaved parents. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let vs search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord ; let us lift tip unf hearts with our...

...is, was, can be miserable, but for sin ; yea, for his own sin. The prophet tells us so in terms ; " Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? " Lam. iii. 39. Nothing can be more true, than that of Bildad the Shuhite; " Behold, God will not...

...and keepeth silence, because, &c. He putteth his mouth in the dust, If so be, there may be hope, &c. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?— Lam. iii. 27 — 29. 39. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against...

...at all, arrived at the due degree of resignation. Jeremiah, with irresistible force, asks, ' Shall a living man complain ; a man for the punishment of his sins?' 3. Religious resignation is perfectly consistent with the clearest and strongest sense of the evils...

...deserve. Saith not that holy book, whose words thy strong memory so well cherisheth, " wherefore should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?" " Did all our kings, and chiefs," he inquired "offend the God of Christians ? Why does he thus draw...

...Communication . compared with the desert of sin; for " the wages of sin is death." Why, then, ' should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?' Under the severest trials of life, it becomes men to consider, that ' it is of the Lord's mercies that...

...ways and doings procure these things to you. Lay your hand therefore upon your mouth, and say, " Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sin? " And now I must turn to the Lord's people, who have the least reason of all men to be dissatisfied...

...person cheerful, and ready to afford you the help which you are capable of receiving. And " why should a living man complain, a man " for the punishment of his sins fl " Is it not better " to be chastened of the Lord," than " to be con" dcmned with the world?" We...

...we should correct our rebellious feelings, and bring our minds to say with the prophet, " Why should a living man complain; a man for the punishment of his sins?" But when he came to his final address, believing from the scriptures " the effectual fervent prayer...