...lesson, not to set our affections on tilings below. The great and irreversible iaw of nature is this : " Man that is born of a woman " hath but a short time...like " a flower, he fleeth as it were a shadow, and 1l never continueth in one stay." Whatever, therefore, may be our most valuable enjoyments ia life,...

...18 1. C 3 HOW How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — " Man that is bom of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery: he cometh up like a flower, and is cut down f:" In the same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak of the flourishing...

...be laid into the earth, the Priest shall say. or the Priest and Clerks shall sing : Man that is bo hath but .a short time to live, and is full of misery....it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. 3. the Priest shall say, Forasmuch as it h God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of...

...and disquieteth himself in vain, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time...down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow." — " In the midst of life we are in death." The attachment which subsisted between Lord Hugh Seymour...

...which I perceive nothing but misery, nothing but man ; and in that misery, the paraphrase of man : " Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble." Were not man's time short, man were the miserablest of all creatures, and I the miserablest...

...to the grave, while the Corfise is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, AN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is Yet,O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, () holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into...

...voice was heard through the remaining part of the painful ceremony, but the clergyman's and clerk's — "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time...misery; he cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; ha flecth, as it were, a shadow, and never continneth in one stay." The last rites were paid, and their...

...ground. Pope's Homer, b. 6. 1. 181. How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up like a flower, and is cut down*:" In the. same figurative language doth the Psalmist speak of the flourishing...

...Grave, when the Corpse is laid in the earth) the Minister tfiall iay, Sec. 4. Burial of the Dead. 137 Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comcth up, ami is cut down like a flower : he fleeth as it were a shadow, aud never continue th in...

...prayer used in our Burial Service : " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and w full of misery ! He cometh up, and is cut down like...death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, 0 Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? " Yet, 0 Lord God, most holy, O Lord most mighty, O...