 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 504 pages
...Moses observes in that Psalm that he wrote on occasion of that mortality : Psal. xc. 10. <i The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow s For it is soon cut off* and we fly away." , This great dispensation of God tefcded to promote the... | |
 | Missions - 1858 - 778 pages
...David of judging of the nature and brevity of life, that " we spend our years as a tale that is told'' —that " the days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off,"... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 570 pages
...reasonably conclude, he did not wish to exceed. Moses, the man of God, had long before his time observed, that the days of our years are threescore years and ten ,• and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off,... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...brethren buried in the wilderness. And needed he to be taught the doctrine of mortality ? Knew he not that the days' of our years are threescore years and ten ? and that the period of human life is as uncertain as it is short ? Yet he felt that no less a teacher than... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1833 - 722 pages
...brethren buried in the wilderness. And needed he to be taught the doctrine of mortality ? Knew he not that the days of our years are threescore years and ten ? and that the period or human life is as uncertain as it is short ? Yet he felt that no less a teacher than... | |
 | Maryland. High Court of Chancery, Theodorick Bland - Equity - 1841 - 706 pages
...observations every where, that there is an ultimate term beyond which human life cannot be extended; that the days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow. (k) And that the extreme... | |
 | Commerce - 1846 - 602 pages
...a constant manner, it appears to be, on that account, an excellent standard of longevity. Should we adopt 80 or 90 years, too few persons constantly reach...are three-score years and ten ; and if, by reason of strength, they be tour-score years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for il is soon cut... | |
 | Commerce - 1846 - 606 pages
...a constant manner, it appears to be, on that account, an excellent standard of longevity. Should we adopt 80 or 90 years, too few persons constantly reach...writ, when it declares that " the days of our years arc three-score years and ten ; and if, by reason of strength, they be four-score years, yet is their... | |
 | 1846 - 508 pages
...who died Oct. 31, at the venerable age of CIV years and six months, by REv. JR SCOTT. Tin- days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...be fourscore years. yet is their strength labor and sorrovs: for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. — PSALMS xc : 10. It is an extraordinary occasion,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...all our days are passed ai'yay in Thy wrath ; We spend our years, as a tale that is told. The days of our years are three-score years and ten ; And if by...four-score years, Yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; O • For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of Thine anger ? Even according... | |
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years : Yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for is soon cut off, and we fly away. 
