...death-bed, the conviction of this operated powerfully upon the royal mind, and extorted these words, "O my "father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horse"men thereof."* But men of prayer, though friends to the true interests of their country, have been treated as enemies....

...was a pattern of piety. Great need of such. May 1 not cry to God as one did to the dying prophet — "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof" — " Were, it not that the Lord of Hosts hath left us a smalt remnant we had surely been like Sodom...

...undissembled piety.t His funeral sermon was preached before a vast concourse of people, from these words, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" Conformity to the new ceremonies and the king's injunctions was now pressed with the utmost rigour....

...would soon have recovered them from their errors. O ! how is our loss swallowed up in the public ! My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. But whither would our passions drive us ? Shall we forget the governor of the world, and who is the...

...be traced, have, on taking their flight, wrung, like our brother, the cry from a thousand hearts of, My Father, my Father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof ! <Rmong other instances which might be given of his general influence in Reading is, that of the exclusion...

...prophet ; and, when his tears would give him leave, breaks forth into a passionate exclamation ; " O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" Yet the calves of Dan and Bethel have left some goodness in Joash : as the best man hath something...

...only some of their names will produce, in many bosoms, the involuntary exclamation of Elisha: — " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" — " Thefatlurt, where are they ?" Sutcliff, Fuller, Wilks, Palmer, Hinton, and Saffery, were eminently...

...agreeable to that sad occasion, upon that pathetical farewell which Elisha gave to Elijah, 2 Kings, ii. 12. My Father, my Father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof, and he saw him no more ; and he took hold of his own clothes and rent them. He observed, "l.That faithful...

...we are ready to identify the cause with the man, and to cry in B2 querulous discontent and unbelief, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. Events of this kind are therefore needful to teach us our dependance on Divine aid, and that the work...

...He died May 29th, 1737, in his 57th year ; and surely I have never seen greater reason to cry out, My father ! my father ! the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!"* The dying words of such eminently holy men have ever been regarded with peculiar interest. Mr. Some's...