 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 144 pàgines
...also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.- Lord, make me to know MIXE END, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I AM. Jam. 4. 13, 14. Prov. 27. 1. Job 21. 23. Mat. 24. 44. Ps. 39. 4. || Gen. 3. 19. and 27. 2. 1 Sam. 20.... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pàgines
...is the chain which joins them. When we begin to meditate, we insensibly break forth into prayer. " While I was musing, the fire burned ; then spake I...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." And if you would have the fire of devotion, which now perhaps is covered with ashes and nearly extinct,... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 pàgines
...lift up our hands and hearts, without ceasing unto God, and say unto him with the royal Psalmist, " Lord, make " me to know mine end, and the measure...days, " what it is ; that I may know how frail I am," Psal. xxxix. 4 ; and with the prophet Moses, " So teach us to " number our days, that we may apply... | |
 | 1839 - 248 pàgines
...him, so that one hour he raged with heat and thirst, and the next his teeth chattered with cold. " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | 1824 - 412 pàgines
...Sunday School Teachers. — Designed to be inserted on the first pages of the Teacher's Class Book. " LORD MAKE ME TO KNOW MINE END, AND THE MEASURE OF...MY DAYS WHAT IT IS THAT I MAY KNOW HOW FRAIL I AM." " Dost thou inquire, O my soul, of the measure of thine uncertain days ? Dost thou ask, Is there not... | |
 | 1824 - 636 pàgines
...!•!>•• v,. i .••...« TAHW . TIME AND ETEHNITY., 522. The Shortness of Time and Frailly of Man. LM LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I' am, &c — PSALM xxxix. 4, &c. ALMIGHTY maker of my frame, Teach me the measure of my days ! Teach me to... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pàgines
...teaches us by his Spirit. This we must pray for most fervently. Thus David, (Psal. xxxix. 4,) " LOuD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He does not ask to know how long he should live, and when he should die. He could not in faith pray... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pàgines
...thou art mindful of him, &c. — Ps, viiL 3, 4. member and turn unto the Lord, &c. — Ps. xxii. 27. My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing, the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. — Ps. xxxix. 3. Luke iii. 15. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine car •. forget... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 pàgines
...value. This sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The sum and substance indeed of his request is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 pàgines
...Ver. 2. 1 was dumb with silence ; I held my peace even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. Ver. 3. My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing, the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. IT is a very useful and profitable thing, to observe the motions and deportments of the spirits of... | |
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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. 
