...from all his subterfuges, he with much passion declines the whole employment, and cries out, O my GOD, send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.$ This justly provokes GOD'S displeasure: and thereon, he finally complies. From all this backwardness,...

...Exod. iv. 13. p. 39. Ib. p. 39. CD It hath been doubted, and disputed, and denied too, that this text, O my Lord, send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send, hath any relation to the sending of the Messiah, to the coming of Christ, to Christmas day ; yet we...

...heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant; but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.—O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send." Would an enthusiast offer objections in this manner, or show such unwillingness to undertake the proposed...

...therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 And he said. О therefore get you up ; for about '•> this time ye shal 6 wilt send. 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, It not Aaron the...

...Moses cried out, when God called him to his ministry, " O my Lord, I am not eloquent," and again " Send, I pray thee, by the hand of him, whom thou wilt send," Ex. iv. 10. 13. So Gideon when called of God to his work, exclaimed in deep humiliation, " Wherewith...

...feelings as are indescribable; and which caused him to give way, as did Moses at Horeb, when he said, " O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him by whom thou wilt send." Or as did Jeremiah, when he said, "I will not make mention of him, nor speak...

...of them, to whom he was to go. But then the fifth, which is not so much an excuse, as a petition (0 my Lord, send I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou w'dt send) tastes of most vehemence, and, as it may seem, of some passion in Moses. He says first,...

...words, but yet we cannot doubt of leave to accompany the fathers in that exposition, that these words, 0 my Lord, send I pray thee, by the hand of him, whom tlwu wilt send, are a petition, and not a reluctation against God. And that, not as Lyra takes them...

...it, Christ Jesus himself, the Messiah himself, and the first petition that he offers to God is this, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him zehom thou wilt send. For me, as I am, I am altogether unfit; when thou shalt be pleased to work upon...

...change, dfC. Benediction 3. — 6. Lesson 3. Isaiah vi. 8 — 10. (At Retponte 6 of Sunday.) Response 3. O my Lord, send, I pray Thee, by the hand of Him whom thou wilt send ; behold the affliction of Thy people : as Thou hast spoken, come, and deliver us. Hear, O Thou Shepherd...