...principal cause of sparing the city, the number within its walls who were in the state of infancy : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein...score thousand persons that cannot discern between the right hand and the left hand ?" (Jon. iv. 11.) And will he, who from pity to them withheld temporal...

...which extends to the meanest rank of his creatures, is expressed with wonderful tenderness ; — ' Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons and also much cattle ?' And we have in Deuteronomy a precept of great goodnature of this sort, with...

...said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it to grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night ; and should I not spare Nineceh, that great city, in which are more than threescore thonsand persons, that cannot...

...— the very Leviathan of sermons, on the repentance of Nineveh, as described in the book of Jonah. " And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also...

...said the Lord, " thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow, which came up in a night, and perished in...spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also...

...25. — Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it to grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night : And should not I spare Nineveh, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and...

...25. — Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it to grow, which came up in a night, and perished in a night : And should not I spare Nineveh, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and...

...said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured neither madest it to grow, •which came up in a night, and perished in a night ; and should not I spare JVinera/t, that great city, in which are more than threescore thousand persons, that cannot discern...

...it had cost him no labour or toil. It is on this consideration that Jehovah says, " And shall I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, which cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle ?" " Jonah, thou...

...said the Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow which came up. in a night, and perished in a night. And * Hosea xi. 8; 9.— Admah and Zeboim were cities in the neighbourhood of Sodom, and are supposed to...