 | Arminianism - 1826 - 918 pages
...and every individual of the human race may address the Lord in the language of the royal Psalmist, " Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth : and mine age is as nothing before thee." (Psalm xxxix. 5.) But let us wisely improve this solemn subject, by a prudent preparation for our final... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1822 - 298 pages
...weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. Thou hast made our days as an hand's breadth, nnd our age is as nothing before Thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. For our days, are not onlyfew, but full of evil. Anxieties perplex us ; dangers alarm us; infirmities... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 548 pages
...am confounded for the pleasures that I have chosen. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am, and that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord : let... | |
 | Christianity - 1822 - 792 pages
...the translation of them as we find it in the Bible. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days ; what it is, that I may know how frail I am. The sum and substance, indeed, of his request, is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 734 pages
...: that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. And now, O Lord, what wait I for ? Surely my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions,... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pages
...Does he pray to be made sensible of his own frailty? Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail...every man at his best state is altogether vanity. (39 P. 4, 5.) 13. liy vlint comparisoiu does the Psalmist teach the shortness and uncertainty of life... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Catechisms, English - 1823 - 144 pages
...such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.- Lord, make me to know MIXE END, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I AM. Jam. 4. 13, 14. Prov. 27. 1. Job 21. 23. Mat. 24. 44. Ps. 39. 4. || Gen. 3. 19. and 27. 2. 1 Sam. 20.... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1823 - 410 pages
...of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. ' LOKD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days what it is : that I may know how frail / am.' Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect of so much wretchedness... | |
 | Christian life - 1839 - 248 pages
...thirst, and the next his teeth chattered with cold. " 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 a hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1829 - 304 pages
...a king. Shall 1 hegin ? 39th Psalm 4th verse : " Lori/, make me to kftozv mine end, awl the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am." M. Do not you think it strange that David should wish to know " the measure of his days," that is,... | |
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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. 
