 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...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 my 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... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...mine end, and the measure of my days, what it ixf that I may know how fr^il I am. 5 Behold, thou hnst Selalu 6 Surely ever}' man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapech... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 418 pages
...may therefore, with much propriety be said, " We are fearfully made." 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 - Congregational churches - 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.... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 706 pages
...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 my days, what...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... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 708 pages
...generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mint' end, and the measure of my daiis, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold...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... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 982 pages
...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 my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verify... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...limited, our days are determined, and our months numbered. Hence David prays, Psal. 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.' Our days are measured ; they are as the days of an hireling. As the hireling hath a set time to work... | |
 | John Stanford - History - 1814 - 450 pages
...saved : for thou art my praise. Jer. 17. 14. I am the Lord that healeth thee. Ex. 15. 26. 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. 39. 4. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.... | |
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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. 
