...instead of producing its ordinary effects, will excite attachment, and perpetuate esteem. J Inquire of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search...nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. lt is not, however, intended, that the passages so given, or referred to, should be regarded as a selection,...

...instead of producing its ordinary effects, will excite attachment, and perpetuate esteem.^ Inquire of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their . fathers. For we are but of yesterday, ami know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. It is not, however, intended, that the...

...an incidental observation of Bildad, who refers Job to their forefathers for instruction in wisdom : Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And prepare thyself to the search of their fathers : Assigning as a reason the comparative shortness of life, and consequent ignorance of the present...

...as a reason the comparative shortness of life, and consequent ignorance of the present generations : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing ; Because our days upon earth are a shadow). viii. 8, 9. But the " fathers of the former age," or grandfathers of the present, were the contemporaries...

...there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling a ? We are but of yesterday, and know nothing; because our days upon earth are a shadow b. We dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the mothc....

...instead of producing its ordinary effects, will excite attachment, and perpetuate esteem. J Inquire of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers. Far we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. It is not,...

...its negative evidence, confirmed in its response the inspired answer of the patriarch, — " Enquire of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers, for we are but of yesterday ;" but it is to the Mosaic record we must turn for any definite statement on a subject concerning which...

...righteousness prosperous. 7 Though Ihy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should grealiy increase. 8 For 6 : I 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are. ti shadow :)...

...THOMAS PRINCE, MA Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations Deut. xxxii. 7. For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers.. Job viii. 8. BOSTON, NE PRINTED BY KNEELAND fc GREEN, FOR S. GERRISH. MDCCXXXVI. A NEW EDITION, PUBLISHED...

...cup might pass from him — yet say, Father ! Thy will be done ! 76, THE VANITY OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. " For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.'' — Job, viii. 9. His birth of yesterday, To-morrow pass'd away ; — His life the shadow of a summer...