As for man, his days are as grass: As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more. Reports - Page 357by National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, National council of the Congretional churches of the United States - 1915Full view - About this book
| John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. — Ps. xcvii. 10. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him : for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are but dust. — Ps. ciii. 13, 14. The Lord hath chastened me sore : but he hath not given... | |
| 1839 - 248 pages
...his pillow, and he went off like an infant going to sleep. " As for man his days are as grass : as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more," Psa. ciii. 15, 16. Butcher Hancocks was... | |
| Cottage - 1825 - 164 pages
...in loneliness from the stem. Sad similitude of humanity ! ' As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.' * When youth is joyous, and its pleasant... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 424 pages
...of our state and condition : " Like as a father pitieth his own children," saith the psalmist, "so the Lord pitieth them that fear him ; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are but dust." Saint Paul, in the 2d chapter of the Ephesians, describes the future condition,... | |
| Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 556 pages
...wind that passeth and cometh not again. So Psal. ciii. 15. As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. This natural life is compared, even by natural... | |
| Pendlebury Houghton - 1825 - 322 pages
...and resources of our own minds, are so utterly inadequate. "Ad for man, his. days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone — but the mercy of the Lord, is, from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 574 pages
...of our state and condition : " Like as a father pitieth his own children," saith the psalmist, "so the Lord pitieth them that fear him ; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are but dust." Saint Paul, in the 2d chapter of the Ephesians, describes the future condition,... | |
| John Hewlett - 1825 - 516 pages
...gathered unto our fathers." — The proudest mortal may say, " the grave is my house" — " as the flower of the field so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." But, as it is appointed for men once to die, so also after death we must believe there... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 822 pages
...of our state and condition : " Like as a father pitieth his own children," saith the psalmist, "so the Lord pitieth them that fear him; for he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are but dust." Saint Paul, in the.Sd chapter of the Ephesians, describes the future condition,... | |
| Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 554 pages
...wind that passeth and cometh not again. So Psal. ciii. 15. As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. This natural life is compared, even by natural... | |
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