 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 pages
...but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled."! But O how depressing to reflect, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ;"§ to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto death," and... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...sometimes apparently useless, he is often ready to lay down his commission at his Master's feet ; to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." Bound to engage at the times appointed, and knowing what is expected from him ; in his perplexity arising... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pages
...lunger doubtful, the soul enters into a state of perfect composure. N lurnt'ul is the reflection, " 1 have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ;" but how complete is the triumph of an apostle rev wing a successful ministry, and looking forward... | |
 | William Orme - 1828 - 302 pages
...abate his ardor, and exclaim, as he sat down in despair of benefiting his fellow men, "I have labored in vain; — I have spent my strength for nought and in vain!" To make a new application of an illustration sufficiently trite:— Were a building in flames, and... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius - 1828 - 778 pages
...taught it, his crucifixion and murder. Wherefore He complains concerning himself, in Isaiah xlix, 4, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." XIII. As God foreknew that this would happen, it is certain that He willed this prophetical office... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1828 - 332 pages
...prophery of Isniah, xlix. 6, in which the prophet complains, in the name of Christ, of want of success. " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought :" to which God replies, that if the issise of his labours should be the most unfavourable that could... | |
 | John Wesley - 1829 - 524 pages
...and ears, ye do always mist the Holy Ghost : As your fathers did, so do ye." — ./',,'.*, vii. 51. " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.— Ism. zHx.4. But that generation,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1829 - 600 pages
...glorified." And afterwards complains of the obstinacy of the ungrateful synagogue : " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain j yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." And immediately after it is added,... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...answerable for our success. If we lose our labour, we shall not lose our reward. A greater than all said, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." SEPT. 8. — " Despisest thou... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...of seeing my dear people attending to their eternal interests, that I may not have reason to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." ' At the communion table the same day, he said, ' Christians seem to expect that their views of Christ... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
