 | C. R. Muston - Future life - 1830 - 432 pages
...scripture, that the tenure by which we hold it is, as uncertain, as it is transient in its duration : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." What can be more slight and precarious than the barrier, which interposes between... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831
...As no man reasonably can be elevated with confidence in a good state, presuming on its duration, (' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth;') so no man should be dejected for a bad one, in suspicion that it will abide long... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1831
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what' a day may bring forth1 — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
 | Peace - 1831
...are not to do evil that good may come. As to your future intentions, as a minister of the Gospel, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." And if you be a parent, or a husband, is it not written, " Leave thy fatherless children,... | |
 | 1831
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1 792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth' — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Eschatology - 1831 - 208 pages
...can infallibly tell that his life shall be continued here, even for another day, or another night. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Prov. xxvii. 1.) This night thy soul may be required. (Luke xii. 20.) There are thousands... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832
...never to enter it again ; and that the leave they had taken of their family was a farewell for ever! " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." " Go to now, ye that say, To day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1832
...faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Rev. xiv. 13. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Rev. xx. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833
...period of our own lives. Our existence this moment is no security for its continuance the next : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." It is always a matter of awful uncertainty when we enter on the business of the day,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832
...I see not, Teach thou mer."] DCCCXI. A CAUTION AGAINST DEPENDING UPON FUTURE TIME. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow : for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. THE opinions of men are not less opposite to the mind of God in what relates to practice,... | |
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
