 To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth...  The new Whole duty of man [&c.]. - Page 426by Whole duty - 1777Full view - About this book
 | 1801 - 576 pages
...thyielf of to-morrow," fays Solomon, •'* for thou knoweft not what a day may bring forth." •' What is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time', and then vanifheth away." Death pays no refpeft to the regular courfe of nature. It feldoms waits 'till a perfon has filled up... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1794 - 526 pages
...and unto duft fhalt thou return. An infpired pen has both ftarted and refolved the queftion ; What is your life ? It* is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanifheth away. James iv. 14. Iffo, " Why all this toil, for triumphs of an hour? What though we wade in wealth, or... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1794 - 502 pages
...following admonition : Ye know not [much lets, can ye be the difpofers of] what ihall be on the morrow. morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vaniflieth. away. Ye ought to fay, if the Lord will, we (hall live, and do this, or... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1794 - 500 pages
...art, and unto duft malt thou return. An infpired pen has both ftarted and refolved the queftion: What is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanimeth away. James iv. 14. If fo, " Why all this toil, for triumphs of an hour ? What... | |
 | John Hinchliffe - 1796 - 228 pages
...city, and continue there a year, and buy, and fell, and get gam : Te know not, fays he, what foall be on the morrow ; For what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appearetb for a little time, and vanijheth away. This plain reflection , obvious as it is to the understanding,... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1796 - 428 pages
...the fhortnefs, and particularly the uncertainty, of life, " Ye know not," fajth he, " what .*' fhall be on the morrow. For what is " your life ? it is even a vappur which ap" peareth for a little time, and then vanifh" eth away." Thus David defcribes the... | |
 | George (little.) - 1847 - 194 pages
...a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall Live, and do this,... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1799 - 204 pages
...a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." The other fact to which men are prone to be so strangely insensible,... | |
 | George Redford - 1843 - 188 pages
...cannot say, I shall live till to-morrow, and will then give my best attention to my soul's affairs. " For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away," James iv. 14. Even while you think to enjoy some future period, the... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 684 pages
...city, and remain there '• a year, and buy and fell, and get gain; whereas ye know not '« what (hall be on the morrow : for what is your life ? It is even a " vapour that appears for a little while, and then vanifheth away, Jam. iv. 13, 14. How foon are the purpofcs ot... | |
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