...following admonition : Ye know not [much lets, can ye be the difpofers of] what ihall be on the morrow. morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vaniflieth. away. Ye ought to fay, if the Lord will, we (hall live, and do this, or...

...art, and unto duft malt thou return. An infpired pen has both ftarted and refolved the queftion: What is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanimeth away. James iv. 14. If fo, " Why all this toil, for triumphs of an hour ? What...

...city, and continue there a year, and buy, and fell, and get gam : Te know not, fays he, what foall be on the morrow ; For what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appearetb for a little time, and vanijheth away. This plain reflection , obvious as it is to the understanding,...

...the fhortnefs, and particularly the uncertainty, of life, " Ye know not," fajth he, " what .*' fhall be on the morrow. For what is " your life ? it is even a vappur which ap" peareth for a little time, and then vanifh" eth away." Thus David defcribes the...

...but themselves." We marvel at the insensibility of others, and are ourselves as insensible as they. " Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will...? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." The other fact to which men are prone to be so strangely insensible,...

...cannot say, I shall live till to-morrow, and will then give my best attention to my soul's affairs. " For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away," James iv. 14. Even while you think to enjoy some future period, the...

...city, and remain there '• a year, and buy and fell, and get gain; whereas ye know not '« what (hall be on the morrow : for what is your life ? It is even a " vapour that appears for a little while, and then vanifheth away, Jam. iv. 13, 14. How foon are the purpofcs ot...

...belongs to the same subject, and that it is connected with ch. iv. 13. 14.. where St. James had said, " Go to now, ye that say, to-day or tomorrow we will...get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on ' the morrow." If this supposition be true, ch.v. 12. contains not a prohibition of serious oaths, by which...

...There is one law-giver, who is able to save, and to destroy ; who art thou that judgest another 1 3 Go to now, ye that say, Today, or to-morrow, we will...continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain : 14 Whereas ye know not what the Lord will, we shall live, anc do this, or that. 1 6 But now ye rejoice...

...Spirit of God never learned you that way of accounting : James, iv. i4. " Whereas ye know not what fhall be on the morrow ; for what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanifheth away." Pfal. xxxix. 5. " Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth,...