 | 1811 - 982 pàgines
...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verify... | |
 | 1811 - 708 pàgines
...measure of my daiis, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth^ and mine age is as nothing before thee...every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in a •moment, like the air which we expire; and the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pàgines
...fixed and limited, our days are determined, and our months numbered. Hence David prays, Psal. xxxix. 4. ' Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure...days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.' Our days are measured ; they are as the days of an hireling. As the hireling hath a set time to work... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pàgines
...God, and the ingratitude of man ; the transient miseries of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days what it is : that / may know how frail I am. Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pàgines
...Our days will have an end, and we must seriously consider that. Hence says the Psalmist, Psal. xxxix. 4. * Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Every thing that is numerable has an end ; and therefore eternity cannot be numbered, since it hath... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pàgines
...which I now enjoy the sleep of nature, will by and by feel me chilling it with the damps of death. " Lord, make me " to know mine end and the measure of...• ' " what it is, that I may know how frail I am !'' And surely it requires contrivance and difficulty to keep off reflection so reasonable and salutary.... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pàgines
...shall be saved : for thou art my praise. Jer. 17. 14. I am the Lord that healeth thee. Ex. 15. 26. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Ps. 39. 4. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 pàgines
...but I shall enjoy a long life, free from all such miserable or offensive disorders." Rather say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." Hence learn too, the much greater loathsomeness of sin. Some of you do not know what I mean by this... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pàgines
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 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 an hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee. Thou turnest... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pàgines
...amplitude, it is scanty, compared with the bounty and the mercy of its Maker." June 4. ., , JPSALM xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is. that 1 may know how frail I am. His present Majesty, KING GEORGE III. born 1738. It is reported of a noble... | |
| |
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 
