 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...are favoured with for the advancement of divine knowledge. Lift up your heart to heaven, and say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Amen. "f CHAP. V. Zeal inculcated.... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...contemplating endless duration, should compare this fleeting life 1o things of the shortest continuance. " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee." This is a subject which every man should deeply ponder in his heart, that he may learn those lessons... | |
 | Samuel Fothergill - 1808 - 230 pages
...heart was hot within me ; then fpake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know my end, and the meafure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." * — O, that they would contemplate the great defign of Providence, with regard to their immortality,... | |
 | 1808 - 290 pages
...Kindled, and forthwith utter'd I these words : ( Lord, let me know my end, and of my days The number, what it is, that I may know How frail I am.' Behold, my days are made As 't were an hand-breadth ; nothing is my age ; Man in his best estate is vanity.... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pages
...are Jearfatty made." 4f/2/y, In respect of our frailty. The same may be said, The Psalmist prays, " O make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity." The scripture, to express the vanity and... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 432 pages
...with the duration which is to follow. ", Thou hast made my days an hand-breadth," says David, " my age is as nothing before thee. Verily,, every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity." As we know death to be certain and near, so we. know, it will be a most solemn change, when it comes.... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pages
...: a fire with vehement heat in my breast, it broke forth into such expressions as these. » Ver. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it ; that I may know bow frail I um.~] Lord, I do not murmur nor repine at roy sufferings ; but that... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...heart was hot within me, white I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 LOUD, " ixf that I may know how fr^il I am. 5 Behold, thou hnst made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 416 pages
...its shortness now ? David has chosen the best, " Thou hast made my days an handbreadth ; mine age is nothing before thee. Verily every man at his best state, is altogether vanity." Moses says, " The days of our years are threeacore years aind ten ; and if by reason of strength they... | |
 | 1811 - 706 pages
...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in a moment, like the air which we expire ; and the... | |
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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. 
