 | James Backhouse - 1831 - 400 pages
...remembrance : ' My heart was hot within me ; while I mused 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. Behold ! Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee : verily every... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...need of calling upon God to teach and impress this upon him, for he could not realize it otherwise : "Lord, make me to know mine end; and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." It is the Lord only that can form in us, by his Spirit, a just appreciation of our latter end. David... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pages
...past, and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm: "Make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."f 1. Every... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...near in words, and of kin, it seems, in sense to this here ; ' Lord,' prays he, ' make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am :' concerning the drift of which place, as well as of this here, it were obvious to conceive that both... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...I was mu sine tlic fire burned: tAen spake I with my tongue. 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, ami the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand breadth ; nml mine age U as nothing before thee :... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1832 - 402 pages
...determined; the number of his months are with Thee ; Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass 3 . 1 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee: verily every... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
