 Thou turnest man to destruction ; And sayest : — " Return, ye children of men." For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.  Prayer - Page 3by John Lathrop - 1804 - 41 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Religion - 1834 - 496 pages
...being. There is a Sovereign of life, and he is absolute. It is God, in whose hand our breath is. " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return ye children of men." The reasons of his determinations with respect to life are unsearchably hidden. His thoughts and ways... | |
 | Thomas Searle - Prayer - 1834 - 284 pages
...grave ? Remember how short my time is. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain, Psalm Ixxxix. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away with a flood: they are as a sleep. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth... | |
 | Religion - 1834 - 400 pages
...being. There is a Sovereign of life, and he is absolute. It is God, in whose hand our breath is. " Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, return ye children of men." The reasons of his determinations with respect to life are unsearchably hidden. His thoughts and ways... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return,...children of men. » For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God, Thou turnest man to destruction 1 and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 544 pages
...day." But it has been thought on the other band that the reference might have been to Ps. 90: 4, " For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past." The language is, however, more nearly that of Peter. Irenaeus has express testimony to the four Gospels,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Reformed Church - 1836 - 458 pages
...expressions which Moses employs to trace the image of the life of the Israelites in the preceding context: " Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men: thou earnest them away as with a flood: they are as asleep: in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 438 pages
...its dissolution. See, for a parallel, Ps. cii. 25, &c. with St. Paul's application, Heb. i. 10. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction : and sayest, Return, ye children of men. Death was the penalty inflicted on man for sin. The latter part of the verse alludes to the fatal sentence,... | |
 | William Cogswell - Families - 1836 - 380 pages
...days, and the number of his months are with thee. Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, return, ye children of men. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep, in the morning they are like grass which... | |
 | 1836 - 108 pages
...its dissolution. See, for a parallel, Ps. cii. 25, &c. with St. Paul's application, Heb. i. 10. 3. " Thou turnest man to destruction ; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." Death was the penalty inflicted on man for sin. The latter part of the verse alludes to the fatal sentence,... | |
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