| Sarah Hawkes - 1838 - 726 pages
...— " Oh, Thou! whose bowels of compassion yearned over Jerusalem, as in that tender lamentation, ' How often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,' — let an afflicted, defenceless one, who ever in trouble flies to thee, abide beneath... | |
| Samuel Horatio Stearns - Congregational churches - 1838 - 436 pages
...pitying lamentation, "Othatthou hadst known, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! How often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! " They who have turned from it, often look back as towards a friend whom they have renounced.... | |
| 1842 - 268 pages
...The Saviour has not been compelled to say of this individual, as He said of impenitent Jerusalem, " How often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not I" There has been in this case a yielding to the admonition and the entreaty,... | |
| Sermons, English - 1839 - 612 pages
...day of life. It was so with THE REPEATED INVITATIONS OP THE GOSPEL. 383 Jerusalem : " O Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens, but ye would not. O Jerusalem, that thou hadst known the day, even this the day of thy visitation !... | |
| 1840 - 456 pages
...cried, " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee ; how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, but ye would not !" " O that thou hadst known, even thou at least in this thy... | |
| Reconciler, Robert Weaver - Creation - 1841 - 432 pages
...the sea." In the same strain does our Lord address himself to Jerusalem : " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" Nay, at another time, beholding the city, now devoted to destruction, he wept over it, saying, "... | |
| Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 376 pages
...— " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." So that it is intended we should here understand, that what in this respect... | |
| Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1841 - 368 pages
...— " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." So that it is intended we should here understand, that what in this respect... | |
| John Harris - 1842 - 28 pages
...when, on Mount Olivet, he beheld the city, and wept over it, and said, " 0 Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" Whose patriotism ever endured what his did — toils, reproaches, unceasing persecution, ignominious... | |
| John Harris - Christianity - 1844 - 336 pages
...when, on Mount Olivet, he beheld the city, and wept over it, and said, " O Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not !" Whose patriotism ever endured what his did — toils, reproaches, unceasing persecution, ignominious... | |
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