 | John Gorham Palfrey - Youth - 1830 - 64 pages
...duties of mature life, may I lay up in store a good foundation against the time to come. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Enable me to understand my errors ; cleanse me from secret faults ; preserve me from all presumptuous... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1830 - 272 pages
...man that walketh, to direct his steps." Hold thou me up then, O Lord, that I slip not. " Teach me so to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." Grant that I may redeem the fleetiug moments I have lost ; that I may cultivate my understanding with... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...coming, and to realize it as near at hand, and to live habitually with reference to it. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. THAT I MAY KNOW now FRAIL I AM. It is always a view of the nearness of our end that makes us feel our frailty.... | |
 | Thomas Wright - Families - 1831 - 424 pages
...prospects before me, I may be enabled to form a proper estimate of all earthly things. Teach me so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; and, ever remembering that here I have no continuing city, — that a thousand unforeseen events... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - Lord's Supper - 1832 - 256 pages
...in all the ornaments of grace, I may by patience wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus. Amen. III. Teach me, O Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; ever to rememher my last end, that I may not dare to sin against thee. Let tby holy angels be ever... | |
 | Richard Allestree (D.D.) - 1832 - 402 pages
...from me. Turn away mine eyes lest they behold vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way. Lord, teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. For the Light of God's Countenance. Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thy face from me ?... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...Well, there is another of the fifteen years gone, and the remainder is rapidly going — So teach me to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." Yet it was awful for him to know the term of life. None of us would know it if it were in our power.... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1834 - 100 pages
...shall live to see the end of it, God only knows ; I do not desire to look into futurity, I only wish so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; I only wish to be of use to my family, and to do good in my generation. Perhaps it may please the... | |
 | John Comly, Isaac Comly - Quakers - 1834 - 390 pages
...This, I believe, we all know how to do. 8th month 2d. Burial of William Carpenter. "Lord, teach me so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." I lire, as if with too much expectation of having many days; when it is safest to live as though I... | |
 | Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton - Prisoners - 1834 - 114 pages
...And now another week is gone, and I am so much nearer my latter end. So teach me, O Lord, henceforth to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. May I be prepared for better conduct during the next week, if it be thy holy will to spare my life... | |
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Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; ever to remember my last end, that I may not dare to sin against thee. 
