| Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 608 pagina’s
...VI. SERMON XV. PROCRASTINATION ; OR THE SIN AND FOLLY OF DEPENDING ON FUTURE TIME. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. THE design of the wise man, in this book of Proverbs is. to give us the precepts of... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 580 pagina’s
...Say not to thy neighbour, Go and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee." " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth °." Direct, ix. ' Distrust not Gods providence for thy own provision.' An unbelieving... | |
| John Bickerton Williams - 1830 - 356 pagina’s
..."December 31, 1696. This year is at an end. On the first day of it I preached from Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.' My fathers, where are they 7 And where am I ? Hasting after them. I have lost much... | |
| William Ashmead - 1830 - 522 pagina’s
...season of salvation. " Seek ye the Lord while he may be found ; call ye upon him while he is near. — Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." SERMON XIV. MARK X. 17 - 22. "And when he was gone forth into the way, there came... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1831 - 332 pagina’s
...can infallibly tell that his life shall be continued here, even for another day, or another night. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Prov. xxvii. 1.) This night thy soul may be required. (Luke xii. 20.) There are thousands now alive, multitudes of whom... | |
| 1831 - 670 pagina’s
...are not to do evil that good may come. As to your future intentions, as a minister of the Gospel, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." And if you be a parent, or a husband, is it not written, " Leave thy fatherless children,... | |
| 1831 - 624 pagina’s
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1 792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth' — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pagina’s
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what' a day may bring forth1 — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pagina’s
...As no man reasonably can be elevated with confidence in a good state, presuming on its duration, (' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth;') so no man should be dejected for a bad one, in suspicion that it will abide long... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1832 - 556 pagina’s
...not then in youth ; it must soon turn to age. Rely not on strength ; it must soon end in weakness. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." (Prov. 27. 1.) Take no pride in thy wisdom or ability ; these shall go down quickly with thyself to " the... | |
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