 | Sketches - 1799 - 204 pages
...mentioning, in conversation, about six months before his death, the words of the psalmist — " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow," he added with a smile, " But I have not found them either labour or sorrow." Much of this freshness... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...Ver. 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. 1's. xc. 0. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Keel. iii. 2. A time to be born and a time to die. Matt. vi.... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...reduction afterwards, when Israel sinned and perished in the wilderness. Then it was said, The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we, fly araay. Though a strong constitution and the proper government... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...to see a hundred and twenty years, hath set man's ordinary period at half his own term : The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; Ps. xc. 10. Lo, fourscore years alone are load enough for the strength, much more for the weakness,... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...the mansions of the blessed ! Amen. The Brevity of Human Life. SERMON XXXV. PSAL. Xc. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten : and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and, sorrow ; for it is so$n cut off, and we fly away.. . JLT has been maintained by some that the exact period... | |
 | William Romaine - 1809 - 212 pages
...age. LT is appointed unto all men once to die. The time is fixed by an immutable decree. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow : for it is cut soon off, and we flee away. If some be permitted to live longer, yet the infirmities... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pages
...the first commandment, with promise; and David tells us what this promised blessing is; " the days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." The next commandment, with promise, is this ; " Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and judgments : which,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 626 pages
...then, according to David's account, it is but a poor life at best that the law promises; " the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and, if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow." And labour and sorrow are of so little value to a soul that desires to be with Christ, that it is hardly... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...to a meditation, a thought, which is of a nature still more fleeting and transient. 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soon cut off, and we jly away. This again might be primarily spoken by Moses, concerning... | |
 | 1858 - 778 pages
...nature and brevity of life, that " we spend our years as a tale that is told'' —that " the days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off," — the brittle thread that detains us to earth is soon snapped asunder, "... | |
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 
