...all the five cities, whereof Sodom is the chief, wilt thou destroy them, notwithstanding ? XVIII. 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous...: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five ? If there shall lack five of fifty righteous in all the five cities, wilt thou, for the want of five,...

...as a token of deep humility. When Abraham prayed unto the Lord, upon the plains of Mamre, he said, " I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes." The deeper we sink in humility, the higher we rise in the esteem of God. 4. All prayer should be offered...

...there shall- thirty be found there And he said, I will not do it, if I tint thirty there. 31 And he of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD. 5 If Peradventure there fcall be twenty founc there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake....

...we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. Gen. xviii. 27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. James v. 1 6. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed :...

...Peradventure there shall be thirty found there. And be said, I will not do it if I find .thirty thsre. An.i he said, Behold now I have taken upon me to> speak unto the Lord : Peradventure there shall te twenty found there. And he Tsaid, I will not destroy it for twenty's...

...speak to him. Good Abraham our father, that great believer, had a deep sense of this, Gen. xviii. 27. Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, wna am but dust and ashes. Now, what ground of boldness can a poor creature, and a great sinner, have...

...thirty be found there. And the Lord said, I will not do it if I find thirty there, 3 1 And Abraham said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord : Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And the Lord said, I will not destroy it for twenty's...

...the faithful approaches the throne of his covenant God, this is his language: " Let not God be angry, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes." Such anonecries, " I am not worth}- of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth which thou...

...sacrifice of fools': for they consider not that they do .vvil. / Gen. xviii. 27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which -am but dust and ashes Gen. xxxii. 10. I am not < worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which trfou...

...for the spirit of real religion directed it. What a pattern for us, in our addresses to the Deity! "Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes!" — "Oh, let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak!" — and this humility introduces and pervades...