 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1810 - 452 pages
...heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye — Acts vii. 51. " 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 — Isaiah xlix. 4." But that generation,... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 722 pages
...making the word efficacious, he left the WJ* .. •» T}ie Pareorage-houpe, fr J ' ' Vant to cry, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." His natural modesty prevented him from, cultivating acquaintance with many who valued his writings.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 516 pages
...fruit of his travail, he so regretted the loss of the Gtntile world, that he exclaimed, " Then have I laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain,"15 doubtless it must be painful to him, after having had a promise of the heathen also for his... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...Yea, 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," Isa. xlix. The branches may be hacked by the preaching of the \vord ; but the stroke will never go... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 476 pages
...Yea, 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," Isa. xlix. The branches may be hacked by the preaching of the word ; but the stroke will never go through,... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1813 - 626 pages
...hid me. And said unto me, thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 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. And now saith the Lord, who formed... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...enquires, " Who will shew me any good ?" And at times he has drawn the conclusion of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, the work of the Lord is not prospering in my hands." I doubt not these have often been the reflections... | |
 | Edward Everett - Apologetics - 1814 - 522 pages
...INCREASE of his government and peace, there shall be no end ;" and represents the Messiah as saying, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ;" and again says, "He shall rebuke many people, and smite the earth with the Rod OF -HIS MOUTH. "J... | |
 | Joseph Sutcliffe - Christianity - 1814 - 206 pages
...the womb, from the bowels of my moth* cr hath he made mention of my name. 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. And now, saith the Lord that formed... | |
 | Thomas Bell - Faith and works - 1814 - 514 pages
...seeing his seed, the travail of his soul, shall be satisfied to eternity; and never once shall say, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought. Secondly, From what was said on the doctrinal part of the subject, be persuaded, my brethren, to examine... | |
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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. 
