 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pàgines
...to HOA.R HAIRS will I carry you : mine End, and the Meafure r have ™ Ae - and l - wU -' ***** cvea of my Days, what it is, that I may know how (#) frail I am. Behold, thou haft made my Days as an Hand breadth, and mine Age is as nothing before thee : Verily, every Man, at... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 418 pàgines
...mine end ; and the meafiire of my days what it is : that I may know how frail I am. Beholdi thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man, at his b.'/t ejlate, is altogether vanity. Surely every man walk' eth in a vain /hew, furely they are difquieted... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1786 - 348 pàgines
...introduces the exclamation that hath been chofen for the prefent fubjedt of our thoughts; Behold thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee ; verily every man, at his bejl Jiate, is altogether vanity ! He entreats his Creator to make him thoroughly fenfible of the end... | |
 | Society of friends - 1788 - 430 pàgines
...concerned to revive thefe exprefilons of the Pfalmift, " Lord, make me to know mine end, " and the meafure of my days, what it is, that " I may know how frail I am: behold thou " haft made my days as an hand's breadth, and " mine age is as nothing before thee." Which {he enlarged... | |
 | 1810 - 582 pàgines
...days- This measure, this short dttrution, he seems to allude to in the following verse : • — ( Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing "before thee !' It becomes us often to consider how near we are to the end of life. The measure of our days is determined... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pàgines
...him, and crushed him, and occasioned his death. Though he was taken, I am still left. ' Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what...every man at his best state is altogether vanity,' Psa. xxxix. 4, 5." On completing his articles of apprenticeship, Mr. Mogridge married Miss Elizabeth... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pàgines
...saw him committed to the tomb. He was my junior, yet here am I musing over his grave. "-Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am," Psalm xxxix. 4. The living love to honour their departed friends, by marking their death-stones with... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 504 pàgines
...there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.] In which he does not desire a response from God, about the day of his death, but instruction concerning... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 pàgines
...friends concerninff 4 them, but to God. LORD, make me to know, that is, consider and reflect upon, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is ; that] I may know how frail I [am,] and so be less concerned at the misery I have to endure, or the prosperity of the wicked that t I eee.... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pàgines
...1. My days are extinct, my breath is corrupt, the graves are ready for inc. Ps. xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand.breadxh, and nine age is as nothing before thee ;... | |
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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. 
