 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1830 - 272 pages
...sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." " Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that 1 may know how frail I am." " And now, Lord, what wait I for, my hope is in thee. Hear my prayer,... | |
 | Thomas Watson - 1830 - 154 pages
...xxxix. 3. David was meditating on mortality, and see how his heart was affected with it, ver. 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." The reason our affections are so chill and cold in spiritual things,... | |
 | 1830 - 868 pages
...heart was hot within me; while I was muring the и '• bumed : then spake 1 with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it û ; that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days of an ¡i >ji'i- [и .-.-.. lin.... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1830 - 640 pages
...them there, they shall return in wing of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, ivhat it is : that I may Icnow how frail I am. In which he does' not 'desire a re-' sponse from God... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1830 - 574 pages
...him from yielding to the temptations that constantly assailed him, that he earnestly prays : " LORD, make me to know mine END, and the measure of my days, that I matt kno-i- /i 0* frail I am ;§ and so teach us to number our dans, that ice may apply our... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...calling upon God to teach and impress this upon him, for he could not realize it otherwise : "Lord, make me to know mine end; and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." It is the Lord only that can form in us, by his Spirit, a just appreciation... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pages
...past, and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm: "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... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1831 - 400 pages
...: ' My heart was hot within me ; while I mused the fire burned; then spake I with my tongue : 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 a handbreadth, and mine age is... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1831 - 458 pages
...v\. 1. Job, Then shall be said the following Passages fropi the 39th and 90th Psalms. PSALM 39. 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 it were a span long, and mine age... | |
 | 1832 - 728 pages
...unpretending volume, we select the following dirge on the death of the old year. NEW YEAR'S EVE. " 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. xxxix. 4. " LET us toll the knell, the funeral knell, The knell... | |
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