...on " the God of all comforts," 2 Cor. i. 3. AUGUST 4. — And Hazael said, But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? — 2 Kings viii. 13. Oh, the treachery of the human heart ! both scripture and experience prove this melancholy truth, that...

...inheritance When they forget thy law. For their Redeemer's sake. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?... .2 Kings viii. 13. Oj THE treachery of the human heart! both scripture and experience prove this melancholy truth, that...

...evil he would do to the children of Israel, &c. ; and of Hazael's answer, " But what is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 12, 13. Yet afterwards he perpetrated the deed ; and this man soon after separated himself, than whom...

...question, but to me — and how often is the one taken for the other!) may be: — " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ? " [2 Kings viii. 13.] Take care, my friend, the very Hazael who said that to the weeping Elisha did the "great thing." [2...

...impossible that he should ever perpetrate such horrid barbarities as the prophet foresaw. " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 13. Yes, Hazael ; however thou mayest imagine thyself gentle as a lamb, thou art fierce as a dog, and savage...

...atrocity been predicted to him, he would have said with Hazael to the prophet, " But what! Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing ?" — 2 Kings viii. 13. Men do not come to such extremes at once. But perhaps nothing tends more to harden the heart than frequent...

...dash their children, and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said, But what ! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" 2 Kings viii. 7, &c. Here, let me ask, Why did the prophet settle his countenance upon Hazael, and burst into tears...

...theft, charges his Maker with ignorance, and says to Him, as Hazael said to Elisha, ' /«' thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? (2 Kings viii. 13.) " The sin of theft, my dear Frederick, is deemed a low and contemptible one, and is, commonly believed to...

...impossible that he should ever perpetrate such horrid barbarities as the prophet foresaw. " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?" 2 Kings viii. 13. Yes, Hazael ; however thou mayest imagine thyself gentle as a lamb, thou art fierce as a dog, and savage...

...cruelties which he was on the point of perpetrating, he exclaimed with horror, " But what, is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing?" 2 Kings viii. 13. He nevertheless did all the evil which was thus foretold. We are not our own keepers. We should beware...