| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 sayfa
...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 e thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. (K) CHAP. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; andinine age is as nothing before thee ; verily... | |
| Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 sayfa
...value. This sense of the words agrees exactly with the translation of them as we find it in the Bible, "Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The sum and substance indeed of his request is contained in the last verse of the Psalm ; an entreaty... | |
| Richard Hele - 1825 - 598 sayfa
...determined ; the number of his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass c. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what is it ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth, and mine... | |
| 1826 - 938 sayfa
...these ! and how far wiser the man, who, considering his latter end, offers the Psalmist's prayer, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." (Ps. xxxix. 4.) But again, the man, who would rightly number his days, will be chiefly anxious to do... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 902 sayfa
...me. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know * how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; i>ere. and mine age is as nothing before thee:... | |
| Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 sayfa
...their endeavours and prayers for the attainment of it. David prays thus: ' Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days what it is: that I may know how frail I am.'k It is not to be understood as if he desired to know, in a literal sense, what year or day his... | |
| Eli Meeker - 1827 - 410 sayfa
...therefore, with much propriety be said, We are fearfully made. The Psalmist prays, O make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the vanity... | |
| 1827 - 590 sayfa
...realizing view of the shortness and uncertainty of life. "Lord, make me to know mine end," says he, " and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." Brethren, may we feel the just force of the wishes here expressed ! May we so learn to " number our... | |
| 1827 - 842 sayfa
...I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, an<i nd she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them, Get you to th 6 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing t>eibre thee : verily... | |
| George Bull - 1827 - 518 sayfa
...grace, which therefore we ought by prayer humbly and earnestly to ask of him. So David doth in my text; Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, &c. One would think this were a needless prayer ; for who knows not that he must die, and that the... | |
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