 | 1792 - 606 pagina’s
...under ihc "Derations of his love. So may ye be our only rdu^e, and without which there U no,faftty. Although we are well aware, that • 'Except the Lord...recommended a diligent attendance of meetings for worfhip on oihcr days, as well as on the firft day . of -the week ; yet as fpiritual welfare depends... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - 1794 - 738 pagina’s
...brethren, the beft way to acquire ftrength for performing duty, and fuftaining afflictions ; for * except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain...that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain *. Wait then on the Lord ; be of good courage, and he fhall ftrengthen... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1794 - 502 pagina’s
...governor among the nations, Pfalm xxii. 28. O Lord, thou preferveft man and beaft. Pfalm xxxvi. 6. .Except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain...that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Pfalm cxxvii. i. Whatlbever the Lord pleafeth, that did he ; in heaven,... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1796 - 530 pagina’s
...and though in general every ChrifHan owns, That without the bleffing of God no man can profper; — that except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain that build it-, that it is but loft labour to rife up early and and take late reft, unlefs God be favourable unto their... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1796 - 428 pagina’s
...building or defending the walls of Jerufalem: He knew, as he exprefleth it in another of his Pfalms, that " except the Lord build the " houfe, they labour in vain that build it ; " and except the Lord watch the city, the " watchmen waketh in vain." He therefore looks directly... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 526 pagina’s
...up. 5. In- a word, call in always the afliltance of the great Archite6t and Mafter-builder; for, " Except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain, that build it." Be always coming to him, i Pet. ii. 4. Be much about his, hand, in the ufe of means ; praying in fecret,... | |
 | William Enfield, John Aikin - 1798 - 488 pagina’s
...ourfelves with thefe things, without the Divine concurrence and bleffing. We exprefs our firm perfuafion that, " except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain that build it," and that whatever fecondary means our inftruments may contribute to our fupport and happinefs, we ought... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pagina’s
...him for direction: Prov. iii. 6. (quoted above). .(3). Depend on him for fuccefs : Pfal. cxxvii. i. " Except the Lord build the houfe, they labour in vain...that build it : Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." (4). Acquiefce in his difpofing of you as may beft fuit your fpiritual... | |
 | bp. George Heorne - 1802 - 562 pagina’s
...of Chrift, which are now, what Jerufalem, the temple, and the people of Ifrael, were in old time. i. Except the LORD build the houfe, they labour in vain...that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. In every undertaking, the bleffing of God muft accompany the labours of... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1802 - 564 pagina’s
...of Chrift, which are now, what Jerufalem, the temple, and the people of Ifrael, were in old time. i. Except the LORD build the houfe ; they labour in vain...that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. In every undertaking, the bleffing of God muft accompany the labours of... | |
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EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 
