| William Jay - 1805 - 486 páginas
...by feel me chilling it with the damps of death. " Lord, make me " to know mine end and the meafure of my days, " what it is, that I may know how frail I am !" And; iurely it requires contrivance and difficulty to keepoff reflections fo reafonable and falutary.... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 páginas
...return. xvii. 1. My days are extinct, my breath is corrupt, the graves are ready for inc. Ps. xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand.breadxh, and nine age is as nothing before thee ;... | |
| Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 páginas
...are favoured with for the advancement of divine knowledge. Lift up your heart to heaven, and say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Amen. "f CHAP. V. Zeal inculcated.... | |
| Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 páginas
...contemplating endless duration, should compare this fleeting life 1o things of the shortest continuance. " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee." This is a subject which every man should deeply ponder in his heart, that he may learn those lessons... | |
| Samuel Fothergill - 1808 - 230 páginas
...heart was hot within me ; then fpake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know my end, and the meafure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." * — O, that they would contemplate the great defign of Providence, with regard to their immortality,... | |
| 1808 - 290 páginas
...Kindled, and forthwith utter'd I these words : ( Lord, let me know my end, and of my days The number, what it is, that I may know How frail I am.' Behold, my days are made As 't were an hand-breadth ; nothing is my age ; Man in his best estate is vanity.... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 páginas
...are Jearfatty made." 4f/2/y, In respect of our frailty. The same may be said, The Psalmist prays, " O make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity." The scripture, to express the vanity and... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 432 páginas
...with the duration which is to follow. ", Thou hast made my days an hand-breadth," says David, " my age is as nothing before thee. Verily,, every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity." As we know death to be certain and near, so we. know, it will be a most solemn change, when it comes.... | |
| 1809 - 556 páginas
...: a fire with vehement heat in my breast, it broke forth into such expressions as these. » Ver. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it ; that I may know bow frail I um.~] Lord, I do not murmur nor repine at roy sufferings ; but that... | |
| 1809 - 1150 páginas
...heart was hot within me, white I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 LOUD, " ixf that I may know how fr^il I am. 5 Behold, thou hnst made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age... | |
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