...happy to live, not so mucn on comforts as 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...

...heart revolted with horrour from the very idea of such enormities; and compelled him to exclaim : Bui what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing'*? ? An access to the height either of vice or virtue must be gradually progressive, and was never yet...

...might have exclaimed with the just indignation of affronted virtue, and in the words of Hazael—" But what! is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing." t T 2 Nor Nor let the presumtuous wretch, exulting in some successful act of villany, attempt an apology...

...slay with the " sword ; and wilt dash their children in pieces, and rip up their " women with child. And Hazael said, but what is thy servant a "dog, that...great thing? And Elisha, answered, " the Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. So he " departed from Elisha, and came to his master,...

...thou slay with the sword, and wilt 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?"— How shall a mean and despicable creature, such as thy servant, who is no better than a dog, have the...

...thy children wise, He pardont his 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...

...men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children ; and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that...this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. , ' When Hazael heard the predictions of the prophet,...

...thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. And Hasael said, but what, is thy servant a dog, that he should...this great thing? And Elisha answered, the Lord hath shewed me, that thou shalt be king over Syria.' I might enforce these reasons for the love of our country,...

...strong mixture of indignation at the supposition that he was capable of such enormous wickedness, " What, is ." thy servant a dog, that he should do this great " thing ?" yet the very next day he commits the atrocious crime of murdering his master. The most hardened...

...children, and rip up their women with child ; -which toa» the highest degree 13 of barbarous cruelty. And Hazael said, But what, [is] thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing ?* And F. lis lia answered, The LORD hath showed me that thou [shalt be] king over Syria ; and iahen thou...