| Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. "4 Then I said, I have labored 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. 5 IT And now, saith the LORD that... | |
| Franz Volkmar Reinhard, Oliver Alden Taylor - 1832 - 564 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... | |
| Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...therefore he Bays, he should labor in vain, if this were all his recompense, " Then said I, I have labored - - Isa. 49:4. And yet withal he tells God, that seeing his heart was so much in saving sinners, he would... | |
| William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...assail them ? He urged him to the vilest crimes. Do they complain of successless exertion ? He said, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." Have they irreligious connexions? "Neither did his own brethren also believe on him." Are their souls... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1832 - 482 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,... | |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - Bible - 1833 - 394 pages
...is, profitless for themselves, and for the good of others. And again, Isai. xlix. 4, " Then I said, I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ;" that is, when Israel had departed from the worship of Jehovah, and had been given up to the service... | |
| Sermons - 1834 - 740 pages
...subjects, had received as yet but little or no Fulfilment. He exclaimed, by the mouth of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain — I have spent my strength for nought, and in Tain." The prospect, however, begins to brighten, as the solemn hour approached when he was to see... | |
| John Sheppard - Consolation - 1833 - 404 pages
...been requited with indifference, sometimes perhaps with scorn. He is compelled to say or to suspect, " I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nought."* What a grievous wound to the spirit ! What a chilling damp on the fervent and dedicated heart ! But... | |
| 1833 - 776 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,... | |
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