 Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little...  Sermons, and Other Discourses ... - Page 468de Samuel Lavington - 1815Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Angell James - 1818 - 230 pages
...indolence would be inexcusable amidst the range of centuries. But you have not centuries at ccmtnand. '- What is your life ? it is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little while, and then vanishelh away." The uuccrtainty of life is a proverb, which we hear every day repeated ; a fact which... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...the grace of the fashion of it perisheth ; so also shall'the rich man fade away in his waysx. Go to now ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into...on the morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth awayr. SECT. 4. A vehement attachment... | |
 | James Inglis - 1820 - 406 pages
...disposing thereof is of the Lord."* "Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into •uch a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell,...be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 514 pages
...then attend, First. To the form of expression which the Apostle condemns. "Go to now, ye that sny, to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and...continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain." In general, we may observe, that this language relates altogether to a worldly project. The principal... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...with the dead ? It is probable, tltat at the commencement of the last year some of our readers said, " We will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain," and return home laden with spoils. But the pestilence that wnlketh in darkness, and rngeth at noon... | |
 | Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pages
...more frequent and more perfect acts of a rational and Christian life. Wherefore St. James declares, Ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Consequently, Such a one has lived... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...uncertainty of what he actually holds To such men I would repeat the serious admonition of St. James ; Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and buy, and sell, and get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; , "for what is even... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 442 pages
...death ? Why do we not more seriously ponder those impressive words of St. James, (v. 13, 14.) "Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into...on the morrow : for what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the... | |
 | 1813 - 998 pages
..."Boast not thvself of to-morrow; for thou'knowest not what a day may bring forth, Prov. xxvii. 1. Go to now, ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go...a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain : whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is your life f it is even a vaSour, that appeareth... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 pages
...xi. 10. He looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. James iv. 14. Ye know not what shall be on the morrow : for what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 2 Peter i. 10. Brethren, give... | |
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