 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 768 pages
...with the Divine nature, viewed his own existence aa defective and short-lived, and exclaimed, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is" — how limited, and short, and soon run out my little term of life — " that I may know," and duly... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...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 my days', • ' " what it is, that I may know how frail I am !'' And surely it requires contrivance and difficulty to keep off reflection... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pages
...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 my 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... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | 1815 - 286 pages
...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 my 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... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 pages
...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 my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." Hence learn too, the much greater loathsomeness of sin. Some of you... | |
 | 1815 - 586 pages
...heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: thett spake 1 with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it; that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 202 pages
...answers to this important question ; kneel down before him who has thy life in his hand, and say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, that I may know how frail 'I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age as... | |
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