 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...answerable for our success. If we lose our labour, we shall not lose our reward. A greater than all said, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." SEPT. 8. — " Despisest thou... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...of seeing my dear people attending to their eternal interests, that I may not have reason to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." ' At the communion table the same day, he said, ' Christians seem to expect that their views of Christ... | |
 | William Hales - Bible - 1830 - 1222 pages
...the MESSIAH'S despondency on this account, and his FATHER'S encouragement. XL1X. 4. " Then I laid, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, even for vanity : Nevertheless, my catae is with THE LORD, And my work \s with MT GOD." 5. " And now,... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1831 - 456 pages
...ministrations should be accompanied with few apparent tokens ef success, so that he is ready to exclaim, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought," yet he will remember that (while there may be success unknown to him) success is not his work, nor... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theological anthropology - 1830 - 588 pages
...Christ himself, who spoke as never man spoke, saith, concerning the success of his own ministry, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." However, God's ordinary way is, " by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe." The cutting... | |
 | David Cranz, Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland - Greenland - 1831 - 318 pages
...hard, and seemingly, fruitless labour. He preached his farewell sermon on Isa. xlix, 4 : " 1 said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God," After the sermon, he baptized... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...complain unto his Father, and lament before him, over the bad success of his undertaking : " Then I said, HILDREN. But Jerusalem which is above is : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God" (ver. 4); clearly proving, that... | |
 | John Hartley - Greece - 1831 - 424 pages
...sermons and conversation. If permanent results do not follow, the language is too applicable :—/ have laboured in vain: I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain. It is impossible for me to assert that I have seen many persons in the Levant brought into that state... | |
 | Franz Volkmar Reinhard - Apologetics - 1831 - 406 pages
...f. words of the prophet Isaiah, 49: 4, fulfilled with regard to him : "Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain. Yet surely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work with my God." He was bound, at least, not to... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
