 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...faveth fuch as be of a CONTRITE SPIRIT. Pf. xxxix. 5. Behold thou haft made my Days as an Hand' breadth, and mine Age is as NOTHING before thee: Verily every Man at his beft State is altogether VANITY. I>. When thou with Rebukes doft con-eft Man for INIQUITY, thou makeft... | |
 | William Sherlock - Death - 1739 - 314 pages
...continued the ordinary Meafure of Life ever fince; which is fo very mort, that David might well fay, Behold thou haft made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age h as nothing before thee : verily every man at his beft ejlate is altogether vanity, Pfal. xxxix. 5.... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - Theology - 1751 - 418 pages
...to know mine end ; and the meafiire of my days what it is : that I may know how frail I am. Beholdi thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine...as nothing before thee : verily every man, at his b.'/t ejlate, is altogether vanity. Surely every man walk' eth in a vain /hew, furely they are difquieted... | |
 | William Sherlock - Death - 1751 - 326 pages
...Life ever fince; which is fo very fhort, that David might well fay, Behold thou haft made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his bcJi eflate is altogether •vanity. Pfal. xxxix. 5. I mail not fcrupuloufly enquire into th« Reafon... | |
 | William Braikenridge - Sermons, English - 1764 - 378 pages
...thou doejl, except God be with him. Page i SERMON II. On the Shortnefs of Human Life. PSALM xxxix. 5. Behold, thou haft made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing hefore thee : verily every man at his bejljlate is altogether vanity. p. 23 SERMON III. The Eternity... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...what it is -.'-that I may know how frail I am. 1 5 Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand breadth : and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his beft ftate is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain mew : furely they are... | |
 | Missions - 1810 - 582 pages
...measure, this short dttrution, he seems to allude to in the following verse : • — ( Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing "before thee !' It becomes us often to consider how near we are to the end of life. The measure of our days is determined... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Authors, English - 1799 - 338 pages
...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 : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity,' Psa. xxxix. 4, 5." On completing his articles of apprenticeship,... | |
 | Old Humphrey - London (England) - 1799 - 372 pages
...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 : verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity," Psalm xxxix. 4, 5. THE MUSEUM AT THE INDIA HOUSE, THE stranger, in... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanifheth away." Pfal. xxxix. 5. " Behold, thou haft made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee.'' — I fhall only inquire, VI. WHY are ye idle all the day ? Will no lefs than all the day ferve ? May... | |
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Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 
