 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.  Reports - Page 354by 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 Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...insensibly break forth into prayer. " While I was musing, the fire burned ; then spake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days what it is, that I may know how frail I am." And if you would have the fire of devotion, which now perhaps is covered with ashes and nearly extinct,... | |
 | 1824 - 636 pages
...!•!>•• v,. i .••...« TAHW . TIME AND ETEHNITY., 522. The Shortness of Time and Frailly of Man. LM LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I' am, &c — PSALM xxxix. 4, &c. ALMIGHTY maker of my frame, Teach me the measure of my days ! Teach me to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1829 - 304 pages
...shepherd to be a king. Shall 1 hegin ? 39th Psalm 4th verse : " Lori/, make me to kftozv mine end, awl the measure of my days, what it is : that I may know how frail I am." M. Do not you think it strange that David should wish to know " the measure of his days," that is,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 pages
...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; camp, xc, 9, 10. "All flesh is grass, and all the goodlincss thereof is as the flower... | |
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