| George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pagina’s
...God, and the ingratitude of man ; the transient miseries of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days what it is : that / may know how frail I am. Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pagina’s
...fixed and 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... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pagina’s
...Our days will have an end, and we must seriously consider that. Hence says the Psalmist, Psal. xxxix. 4. * Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Every thing that is numerable has an end ; and therefore eternity cannot be numbered, since it hath... | |
| 1858 - 778 pagina’s
...contrast with the Divine nature, viewed his own existence aa defective and short-lived, and exclaimed, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is" — how limited, and short, and soon run out my little term of life — " that I may know," and duly... | |
| 1810 - 596 pagina’s
...assistance, the grace of God. With solemn ardour of soul he prays, ' Lord, direct my thoughts, dispose me, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is !' Observe, he reflects that ' the end of all 'things is at hand.' He puses, and thinks that the end... | |
| John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pagina’s
...shall be 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... | |
| William Jay - 1814 - 552 pagina’s
...which I now enjoy the sleep of nature, will by and by feel me chilling it with the damps of death. " Lord, make me " to know mine end and the measure of my days', • ' " what it is, that I may know how frail I am !'' And surely it requires contrivance and difficulty to keep off reflection... | |
| Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pagina’s
...amplitude, it is scanty, compared with the bounty and the mercy of its Maker." June 4. ., , JPSALM xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure...days, what it is. that 1 may know how frail I am. His present Majesty, KING GEORGE III. born 1738. It is reported of a noble foreigner, that on his birth-day... | |
| 1815 - 294 pagina’s
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 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 hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 pagina’s
...but I shall enjoy a long life, free from all such miserable or offensive disorders." Rather 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." Hence learn too, the much greater loathsomeness of sin. Some of you do... | |
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