 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 a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.  Select [Backhouse] family memoirs - Page 65by James Backhouse - 1831 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...faveth fuch as be of a CONTRITE SPIRIT. Pf. xxxix. 5. Behold thou haft made my Days as an Hand' breadth, and mine Age is as NOTHING before thee: Verily every Man at his beft State is altogether VANITY. I>. When thou with Rebukes doft con-eft Man for INIQUITY, thou makeft... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1751 - 326 pages
...ordinary Meafure of Life ever fince; which is fo very fhort, that David might well fay, Behold thou haft made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his bcJi eflate is altogether •vanity. Pfal. xxxix. 5. I mail not fcrupuloufly enquire into th« Reafon... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 418 pages
...meafiire of my days what it is : that I may know how frail I am. Beholdi thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man, at his b.'/t ejlate, is altogether vanity. Surely every man walk' eth in a vain /hew, furely they are difquieted... | |
 | William Braikenridge - 1764 - 378 pages
...II. On the Shortnefs of Human Life. PSAL. xxxix. 5. Behold, thou haft made my days as an handbreadrh, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his bejiftate is altogether vanity. AMI DST ail the chearfulnefs, which s ER M. our prefent enjoyments... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1786 - 348 pages
...SERMON VII. On the Shortnefs and Vanity of Life. PSALM xxxix. 5. IBehold, thou haft made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : Verily every man, at his beji Jlate, is altogether vanity \ 119 SERMON VIII. On a future State of Rewards and Punifhments. ROMANS... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...what it is -.'-that I may know how frail I am. 1 5 Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand breadth : and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his beft ftate is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain mew : furely they are... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 372 pages
...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," Psalm xxxix. 4, 5. THE MUSEUM AT THE INDIA HOUSE, THE stranger, in visiting... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 338 pages
...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,' Psa. xxxix. 4, 5." On completing his articles of apprenticeship, Mr. Mogridge... | |
 | John Lathrop - 1804 - 54 pages
...the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? Behold, Thou hast made his days, as an handbreadth, and his age is, as nothing, before Thee. Verily every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. He cometh forth, as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also, as a shadow, and continueth not. We... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...that I may know how frail I am. Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand.breadxh, and nine age is as nothing before thee ; verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Ver. 1 3. O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go hence and be no more. Ps. xc. 3, 5, 6,... | |
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