...do, but pour out floods of tears, towards the quenching of it ; and say, with the lamenting Prophet, Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night, for the slain of the daughter of my People ! Jer ix. 1. But, as Chrysostom said long ago in the like case to Innocentius, It is not wailing will...

...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and...adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they hend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth....

...my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave rny people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers,...men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for Ires: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth. 13: 17. If ye will not hear, my soul shall...

...almost at a loss, for he seems to have wept throughout, and notwithstanding he exclaims, weeping, " Oh ! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Oh! what samples these are of holy fervour in preaching, and of deep anxiety for the unconverted ! We have...

...recklessness usually testified on matters of eternal moment. His language will be that of the prophet : " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people" (Jer. ix. 1). His feeling will be that of the apostle, when he told his Philippian converts, weeping,...

...boasted illumination of the age in which we live ? Who will not adopt the Prophet's language, and say, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people !" Jer. ix. 1. Who is on the Lord's side ? Is, then, Christianity changed within the last fifty years...

...one third of the human race, is beyond measure distressing, and might well induce one to exclaim, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of this people." There are, doubtless, amongst such a vast concourse of human beings, numbers, who, according...

...sinking Monarch. He " looked for Peace, but no good came, and for a time of health, and behold troubles ! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of...might leave my people, and go from them, for they be an Assembly of treacherous men." END OF VOLUME FIRST. ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. NOTE I. p....

...Jeremiah ; I could say with the former, " I am distressed for thee, my brother," and with the latter, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people !" Nothing could be more lovely than the gradually narrowing banks of Waterford...

...Jeremiah ; I could say with the former, " I am distressed for thee, my brother," and with the latter, " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughters of my people !" Nothing could be more lovely than the gradually narrowing banks of Waterford...