 | 1831 - 652 sayfa
...fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in his party, according to Clarendon,... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 sayfa
...an oturrence that happened a few months, or a :\v weeks ago. But " a thousand years are n his sight but as yesterday, when it is passed, and as a watch in the night" As he observes every thing, so he retains it ; and what with ue — is past, with him — ¡a present.... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 sayfa
...fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in his party, according to Clarendon,... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1837 - 484 sayfa
...everlasting to everlasting he is God," and " that a tliou. SERMON XXVI. sand years in his sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night." 5. We may be comforted also by remembering, that the unchangeableness of our Lord is only one amongst... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1838 - 386 sayfa
...sinners meet divine relief, To cure the raging smart." FEBRUARY 17. " A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. Thau earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | 1841 - 986 sayfa
...fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great consternation in his party, according to Clarendon, as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 sayfa
...fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. The news of Hampden's death produced as great a consternation in his parly, according to Clarendon,... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1840 - 970 sayfa
...quickly return to the dust ; look with awe and veneration to one, in whose sight a thousand years are but as yesterday, when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. Subject, during our short span of life, to perpetual change ; we look with humble confidence to one,... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 sayfa
...turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. Ps. 93.2. Thy throne is' established of old: thou art from everlasting. Ps. 102. 27. Thou art the same,... | |
 | David Page - 1845 - 400 sayfa
...approach to an understanding of their meaning, the words of David—"In thy sight a thousand years are as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the might." (Applause.) The next idea which is brought forcibly before our mind is this—that, during... | |
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... that lofty and melancholy psalm in which the fragility of human life is contrasted with the immutability of Him to whom a thousand 'years are as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night. 
