...asking, and in the diligent improvement of common grace ! $20. Prov.' x\i. 1. " The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersoever he will." This shews that the Arrainiaii notion of liberty of will, is inconsistent...

...us, and he will deliver us as he sees fit, either by taking him away or changing his heart ; for, " the king's heart is in the hand " of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it " whithersoever he will." — In one word, let us either deserve good governors, or bear...

...us, and he will deliver us as he sees fit, either by taking him away or changing his heart; for, " the king's heart is in the hand " of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it " whithersoever he will."—In one word, let us either deserve good governors, or bear with...

...grasshoppers ; that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity f. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will8. He Icadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools....

...bluenes3 of a wound cleanseth away evil : so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. • CHAP. XXI. ur God. 11 If And it came to pass on the turneth it whithersoever he will. 2 Every way of a man is right in his own / eyes : but the LORD pon<iereth...

...adduced: — "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee, and the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain." "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it withersoever he will." Prov. xxi, 1. '<He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal...

...— " The preparations of the heart, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord." Vol. ip 203. " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the rivers of water, he torneth it whithersoever he will." P. 386. To these may be added, the passages in which God is said...

...king when he reviewed the providences of God towards him *. * Ps. cxix. 65. 71. CHAPTER XXL Verse 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will. IT is men's ordinary way to court the favour of princes and great...

...'' an effort and refinement," puts a construction upon it, which renders it absurd. Prov. xxi. 1. " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he wiil." Here it is asserted, that the king's heart is in the hand, not of...

...a model for our petitions, buta powerful encouragement to prayer ; for, as we are elsewhere told, " the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the rivers of water, he turnetb it whithersoever he will ;" so that our prayers for our monarch thus return upon ourselves...