 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 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. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days us an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 pages
...there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am. In which he does not desire a response from God about the day of his death, but instruction VoL. II.... | |
 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 640 pages
...there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4*. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am. In which he does not desire a response from God about the day of his death, but instruction VOL. II.... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 pages
...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; camp, xc, 9, 10. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodlincss thereof is as the flower... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1899 - 336 pages
...and on himself; and thus, "Every man at his best estate " (the learned as well as the illiterate) " is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain show ; surely they are disquieted in vain." And it must be well observed, that aa God laid not aside the relation of a Creator by o becoming our... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 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. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; i>ere. and mine age is as nothing before thee:... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...how far wiser the man, who, considering his latter end, offers the Psalmist's prayer, " 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.) But again, the man, who would rightly number his days, will be chiefly anxious to do... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pages
...better ? God gives the earth to the children of men, but reserves better things for his people : " Man walketh in a vain show : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knowetn not who shall gather them," Psalm xxxix. 6. " They that will be rich fall into temptation and... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...the past, and that upon the opening of every new era, it comes unto us, with the full imprimature, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee" (Psal. xxxix. 5) ; and the whole of earth's endowments consists in the one dissolving view, "We (spend... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 pages
...their endeavours and prayers for the attainment of it. David prays thus: ' Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days what it is: that I may know how frail I am.'k It is not to be understood as if he desired to know, in a literal sense, what year or day his... | |
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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. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
