...Zion nigh at hand. But my dear sir, you will condole the death of that dear man, Mr. President Burr. My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!— Mr. Edwards, of Stockbridge, is chosen, and I hear is gone to supply his place. I have been diligently...

...afflicted community was ready to adopt the words of Elisha, when he beheld the ascending prophet, " My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." List of Rev. John Cotton's works. 1. The way of life, in four treatises. Lond. 1641. pp. 481. 4to....

...world where with him you are preparing to be associated, you looked up with tears, and exclaimed — " My father — my father ! the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!" He first led you to the paths of peace ; he first directed you to look to Jesus, and to seek mercy...

...wonderful, passing the love '* of women,'* When Elifha beheld the reformer Elijah ascending, " he cried, my father, my father, " the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof." The case of the disciples was more peculiarly afflictive ; and " sorrow filled their hearts." Our Saviour...

...be traced, have, on taking their flight, wrung, like our Brother, the cry frwn a thousand hearts of My Father, my Father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! Among other instances which might be given of his general influence in Reading is, that of the exclusion...

...of his age, greatly lamented by all who had a taste of practical religion and undisserablcd piety. ^ His funeral sermon was preached before a vast concourse...father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof f Conformity to the new ceremonies and the king's injunctions was now pressed with the utmost rigor....

...professing children, and those v-holove the prosperity of Zion, will unite their void' and CIT after him, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." It hath pleased thai holy and faithful God, who, by his decree hath fited to nil mm the bounds ef their...

...to that sad occasion, upon that pathetical farewel which Elisha gave to Elijah, (2 Kings ii. 1 2i) My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof, and he saw him no more ; and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them. He observed, 1. " That...

...Sunday, after his interment, by his eldest son Dr. CALEB EVANS., The text was from 2 Kings ii. 12. My father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! It was somewhat remarkable that a sow should preach his father's funeral sermon; but never was there...

...death-bed, the conviction of this operated powerfully upon the royal mind, and extorted these words, "O my "father, my father, the chariots of Israel, and the horse"men thereof."* But men of prayer, though friends to the true interests of their country, have been treated as enemies....