 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pages
...teaches us by his Spirit. This we must pray for most fervently. Thus David, (Psal. xxxix. 4,) " LOuD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He does not ask to know how long he should live, and when he should die. He could not in faith pray... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pages
...this more than what the Scripture taught us before ? In the xxxixth Psalm, we find David saying, ' Surely every man walketh in a vain show : surely they...up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.' It' he makes a show, it is a vain show. If he is disquieted, agitated exceedingly in his schemes and... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...If 1 rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much, Job xxxi. 24, 2.5. Surely every man walketh in a vain show : surely they...up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them, Peal, xxxix. 6. Trust not in oppression, and becomenotvain in robbery : if riches increase, set not... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 pages
...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 us an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily... | |
 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 640 pages
...empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4*. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am. In which he does not desire a response from God about the day of his death, but instruction VOL. II.... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 pages
...empty them there, they shall return in wine of strong consolation. Ver. 4. Now David's request is, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am. In which he does not desire a response from God about the day of his death, but instruction VoL. II.... | |
 | Thomas Rennell - 1825 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 938 pages
...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 pages
...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:... | |
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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. 
