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So he got together immediately all his own soldiers that were fit for war, and made haste in rebuilding the walls of the city, and strengthening them by very high and strong towers, and sent a friend of his, one Jonathan, the son of Absalom, to Joppa, and gave him order to eject the inhabitants out of the city, for he was afraid lest they should deliver up the city to Trypho; but he himself staid to secure Jerusalem.
His wish was that the girl should be well educated and prepared for any change in her circumstances but unfortunately she has proved to be rather a wilful young person, and it has been impossible entirely to fulfil his intentions with regard to her. Ah, he wasn't wise always, poor Jonathan, but I never doubted that he meant well at bottom, however things may have appeared.
The lady well supposing that his Brother Jonathan was then his companion in arms, and in the street suffering with hunger, readily granted his request, when in truth and in fact Jonathan was then at home cultivating his farm in Boscawen. Brother Jonathan, upon learning the conduct of his brother, rebuked him for useing his name, instead of his own, thereby deceiving the good woman.
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
When hour after hour, she sat by his sofa, interesting him as best she could in the dull "good" books which alone were allowed of Sundays, and then passing into word-of-mouth stories the beautiful Bible stories over which her own voice trembled while she told them Ruth, with her piteous cry, "Whither thou goest, I will go; where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried;" Jonathan, whose soul "clave to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul" all these histories of passionate fidelity and agonized parting for every sort of love is essentially the same how they went to her heart.
He sat down, and, after a pondering silence, in which he had remained with his head fallen upon his breast, "My name is Jonathan Tinker," he said, with the unaffected air which had already impressed the contributor, and as if he felt that some form of introduction was necessary, "and the girl that I want to find is Julia Tinker."
AUGUSTA. I'm afraid I'm not an authority on Minnie's kind. DR. JONATHAN. Well, I am. The only motive which could have induced her to leave my laboratory and Foxon Falls her father is what you would call a Christian motive. AUGUSTA. What do you mean? DR. JONATHAN. An unselfish motive. She went because she thought she could help someone by going. AUGUSTA. Why do you discuss this with me?
Learn, therefore, to be deeply attentive to the presence of God in your own hearts, who is always speaking, always instructing, always illuminating the heart that is attentive to Him. Jonathan Edwards called the poor parish minister of Ettrick 'a truly great divine. But Law goes on to say, 'A great divine is but a cant expression unless it signifies a man greatly advanced in the divine life.
"I wish it had been in church and before a clergyman." "Are you trying to make me jealous again of the Reverend Orlando? I'm an old married man now, and it is hopeless." "Do you really feel married, Jonathan?" "The deuce I don't! If I did I'd be galloping down the turnpike." "I wonder why you did it?" she questioned a little wistfully, "you take it so lightly."
I could scarcely have sold him for a hundred dollars, and would not have parted with him for ten thousand, if for no other reason than his deep and dog-like devotion to me. Hence, when I made this poor fellow run and pant, I must have been possessed of an unusually resolute desire to be disagreeable to myself. And in truth I was. Mr. Jonathan Cross made me very welcome.