 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 582 pages
...then I cannot too earnestly entreat you to offer, each of you for yourselves, the prayer of David, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am ! " And I beseech you to get his estimate of human life so graven on your hearts, that you may walk... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1832 - 222 pages
...till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Psalm xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Matt. xxiv. 44. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.... | |
 | 1832 - 874 pages
...with a volume that contains some happy proofs, that the inspirations of the poet are NEW YEAR'S EVE. " 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. " LET us toll the knell, the funeral knell, The knell of the dying year" — They were... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1832 - 222 pages
...till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Psalm xxxix. 4. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Matt. xxiv. 44. Therefore be ye also ready : for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.... | |
 | Manual - 1832 - 336 pages
...and fallacious the pursuit is. The psalmist had, long before Christ's appearance, said truly, that " Every man walketh in a vain show ; surely they are...up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them." (Ps. xxxix. 6.) And our Saviour, who took every opportunity (as innumerable passages in the New Testament... | |
 | 1832 - 628 pages
...unpretending volume, we select the following dirge on the death of the old year. NEW YEAR'S EVE. " li,i:l, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." Ps. xxxix. 4. " LET us lull the knell, the funeral knell, The knell of the dying year" — They were... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 698 pages
...a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm : " Make me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadih ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."t 1. Every portion of duration is something real,... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 708 pages
...a watch in the night,"* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm : " Make me know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it...how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."t 1. Every portion of duration is something real,... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...and wilt thou bring me into dust again ? 19 There is none that can deliver out of thine hand. ^f20 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 21 Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily... | |
 | Jean La Placette - 1833 - 442 pages
...our hearts unto wisdom," is the prayer of Moses ; and similar to it is that of the Psalmist, — " LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." (Ps. xc. xxxix.) Nevertheless, however proper may be this duty, there are three descriptions of people... | |
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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. 
