strange children by francis booth

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver

me out of great waters, from the hand of strange

children.

Psalm 144

Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of

strange children, whose mouth speaketh

vanity, and their right hand is a right hand

of falsehood.

Psalm 144

They have dealt treacherously against

the Lord: for they have begotten strange

children: now shall a month devour them

with their portions

Hosea 5:7

As soon as they hear of me,

they shall obey me: but the

strange children shall

dissemble with me.

Psalm 18

The strange children shall fail:

and be afraid out of their

prisons.

Psalm 18

The strange children have

denied me: at the hearing of

the ear shall they hark unto

me.

2 Samuel 22:45

O come again, come again, ye strange

children, and I will receive you, saith the

Lord

Letters of the Martyrs; Master Bradford

‘The strange children have lied unto Me.’

Children, not to be called Mine, but rather

strange children, to whom it is rightly said, You

are of your father the devil, have lied unto

Me.

St Augustine, commentary on Psalm 18

‘The strange children have waxen old’.

The strange children, to whom for their

renovation I brought the new Testament,

have remained in the old man.

St Augustine, commentary on Psalm 18

It is clear that on strange children and on

the offspring of the Antichrist the Holy Spirit

cannot descend by the laying on of hands

alone

St Augustine, Letters of the Manicheans

Strange children, aliens from the

race and belonging not to the seed

of Abraham.

St Augustine, Sermon XIII

For thou hast cast off thy

people, the house of Jacob:

because they are filled as in

times past, and have had

soothsayers as the Philistines,

and have adhered to

strange children.

Isaiah 2:6

This is a rebellious people,

lying children,

children that will not hear the

law of the Lord

Isiah 30:9

I will greatly multiply thy

sorrow and thy conception;

in sorrow thou shalt bring

forth children

Genesis 3:16

And the children struggled

together within her; and she

said, If it be so, why am I

thus?

Genesis 25:22

I am become a stranger unto

my brethren, and an alien

unto my mother's children.

Psalm 69

The LORD shall increase you

more and more, you and

your children

Psalm 115

From men which are thy hand, O Lord,

from men of the world, which have their

portion in this life, and whose belly thou

fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of

children, and leave the rest of their

substance to their babes

Psalm 17