Scripture
Lamentations 5
5 passages from 5 books in the Christian Reader library reference Lamentations 5.
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Use 1. This is matter of humiliation for our fall in Adam. In the state of innocency we were perfectly holy; our minds were crowned with knowledge, and our wills as a queen did sway the scepter of liberty: but now we may say as Lamentations 5:16, The crown is fallen from our hea…
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We have fallen, thousands of persons into the grave by the plague, thousands of houses, as a great monument upon them, by the fire; and from where is it? we are fallen by our iniquities (Hosea 14:1). The crown is fallen from our heads; and what is the reason? because we have sin…
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The Apostle Paul has his sin ever in his eye, he keeps it in fresh remembrance and consideration, never has occasion to mention anything of himself but still he strikes upon that string, to me the least of all saints and then the chief of all sinners, I was a persecutor and blas…
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Who brings on faintness and terror upon the spirit, when the sound of a shaking leaf shall chase men (Leviticus 26:36), and when the Lord sends a trembling of heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind (Deuteronomy 28:65)? 16. We are called to be dead to honorable birth, blo…
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It is no weighty objection that they also are sinners, continuing in their fathers' sins — for the worst of sinners must not be dealt with unjustly, but they must be if they are punished for their fathers' sins, and it be absolutely unlawful that anyone should be punished for th…
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