 | 1831 - 930 pages
...measure of my days, what it is that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an build an Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain ope 15 in thee.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...near in words, and of kin, it seems, in sense to this here ; ' Lord,' prays he, ' make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am :' concerning the drift of which place, as well as of this here, it were obvious to conceive that both... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1832 - 402 pages
...his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass 3 . 1 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it...every man at his best state is altogether vanity'. For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...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...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."f 1. Every portion of duration is something... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...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...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee."f 1. Every portion of duration is something... | |
 | George Brannon - 1832 - 84 pages
...and leaving their inheritance to be enjoyed by others. David once observed the same, and cried out, ' Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth,...nothing before thee : verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.' "It was not unfrequently my custom, when my mind was filled with any... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 734 pages
...and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm : " Make me know mine end, and the measure of my days,...what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, tliou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."t 1. Every portion... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 582 pages
...earnestly entreat you to offer, each of you for yourselves, the prayer of David, " 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 I beseech you to get his estimate of human life so graven on your hearts, that you may walk... | |
 | 1832 - 728 pages
...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 of the dying year" — They were... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1832 - 222 pages
...be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Psalm xxxix. 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. Matt. xxiv. 44. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.... | |
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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. 
