...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...heaven. * MJiai. ». 12 ^[ And Elisha saw it, and he cried, a My father, myach xiii u father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him...and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood...

...flight of an Elijah, or withhold the dying embrace from a Moses, though the one should awaken the cry, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof," and the other fill us with mourning thirty days. We have been led into this chain of thought, from what...

...overflows me, and. the transforming beams unfold, and bear me hence, to everlasting day. Elisha. " My father ! my father ! the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof!" Thus with a prosperous soul, the holy prophet Ascended ; Elisha caught his mantle, walked in his steps,...

...heaven. 12 11 And Elisha snw it, and he cried, My Bather, my father ! the chariot of Israel, and he pe clothe;, and rent them in two pieces. 13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah hat fell from him, and...

...instructed by his doctrine, and allured by his example, now follow him to the grave, exclaiming, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof !" It is thus that God provides for his church the fittest instruments, endows them with the most eminent...