 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pàgines
...unsolemnized with considerations of life and death, time and eternity, has visited the place in vain. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...every man at his best state is altogether vanity," Psalm xxxix. 4, 5. THE MUSEUM AT THE INDIA HOUSE, THE stranger, in visiting either the museum at the... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pàgines
...tree fell on him, and crushed him, and occasioned his death. Though he was taken, I am still left. ' Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...every man at his best state is altogether vanity,' Psa. xxxix. 4, 5." On completing his articles of apprenticeship, Mr. Mogridge married Miss Elizabeth... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 504 pàgines
...empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.] In which he does not desire a response from God, about the day of his death, but instruction concerning... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pàgines
...mine end, and the measure of my days, what it ixf that I may know how fr^il I am. 5 Behold, thou hnst Selalu 6 Surely ever}' man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapech... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1811 - 706 pàgines
...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in a moment, like the air which we expire ; and the... | |
 | 1811 - 708 pàgines
...generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mint' end, and the measure of my daiis, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold...every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in a •moment, like the air which we expire; and the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pàgines
...and limited, our days are determined, and our months numbered. Hence David prays, Psal. 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.' Our days are measured ; they are as the days of an hireling. As the hireling hath a set time to work... | |
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Lord, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is ; That I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
