 | 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mint' end, and the measure of my daiis, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold...every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in a •moment, like the air which we expire; and the... | |
 | 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 982
...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verify... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...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...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 hath a set time to work... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...feems, in Wai.xrxix.fenfe to this here ; Lord, prays he, make me to know 4> my end, and the meafure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am : concerning the drift of which place, as well as of this here, it were obvioua to conceive that both... | |
 | 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 778
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...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...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 appointed for all living.... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...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...• ' " what it is, that I may know how frail I am !'' And surely it requires contrivance and difficulty to keep off reflection so reasonable and salutary.... | |
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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 handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
