 | Timothy Alden - Epitaphs - 1814 - 306 pages
...down. He fieeth also as a shadow and continueth not. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Blessed be the God and father... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...illustrated by the prophet, (Isa. xliv.) 2. "Nothing," is applied to human life, (Psalm xxxix. 5), " Mine age is as nothing before thee ; verily every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity,'' — nothing when compared with the immeasurable extent and the unnumbered... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee. Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest,... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...but I shall enjoy a long life, free from all such miserable or offensive disorders." Rather say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." Hence learn too, the much greater loathsomeness of sin. Some of you do not know what I mean by this... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1815 - 430 pages
...amplitude, it is scanty, compared with the bounty and the mercy of its Maker." June 4. ., , JPSALM xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is. that 1 may know how frail I am. His present Majesty, KING GEORGE III. born 1738. It is reported of a noble... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: thett spake 1 with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it; that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age... | |
 | 1815 - 974 pages
...meafure of my days.what it il ; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou haft made my days at an all never fee light. 20 Man that is in honour 1»'(! (late is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain fliew : furely they... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian life - 1815 - 202 pages
...answers to this important question ; kneel down before him who has thy life in his hand, and say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, that I may know how frail 'I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age as... | |
 | 1816 - 566 pages
...when a sermon was preached by his minister, to a very crowded congregation, from PsaJm xxxviii. 4. " Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He has left an example worthy of imitation, and a testimony in the minds of all who knew him, " that... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...the shortness of human life, and the certainty of death, says, " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee...verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity ;" and again, " Man is like to vanity, his davs pass away like a shadow." In perfect harmony with this... | |
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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. 
