 | Joshua Toulmin - Unitarianism - 1801 - 206 pages
...prophecy represented him as lamenting the unsuccessfulness of his preaching, and saying, " I have laboured in vain ; I have " spent my strength for nought, and in vain." It is well known to you, that the apostles, notwithstanding that thousands were sometimes converted... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...each as he falls, must feel the melancholy and not altogether groundless conviction, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain," since little will or can be done in comparison to what mightbe effected, if the labour were duly apportioned.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1804 - 442 pages
...the peace of a good conscience, we must learn to say with the prophet, or rather with Jesus Christ, / have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God, Isa. xlix. 4. We must content ourselves... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...whom Israel nhall be glorified ; or, I will be 4 glorified in Israel.* Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; / have bnn rejected by the Jews, and few of them have believed : [yet] surely my judgment [is] with... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1806 - 460 pages
...perdition ; that the scripture might be fulfilled," John xvii. 12. But O how depressing to reflect, " I have labored in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain,'' Isai. xlix. 4, to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...Zion. Ver. 1 6. I will clothe her priests with salvation, Sec. Isa. xlix. 4. 1 said I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. Jer. xv. 19. Thus saith the Lord,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...iromall worlds, to be a fit and perfect instrument of his service. XLIX. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. Then I said, I have omitted nothing... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...accepts of both my active and passive obedience. So also verse 5. XLIX. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with, the LORD, and my work with my God. XLIX. 5 Though Israel be not gathered,... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 722 pages
...efficacious, he left the WJ* .. •» T}ie Pareorage-houpe, fr J ' ' Vant to cry, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." His natural modesty prevented him from, cultivating acquaintance with many who valued his writings.... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1810 - 452 pages
...do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye — Acts vii. 51. " I have laboured in vain : I have spent my strength for. nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God — Isaiah xlix. 4." But that generation,... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
