 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...shrunk, and deformed, and wrinkled, with sorrow ; even as a bottle, that is hanged up in the smoke. CXIX. 96. I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding large. There is no earthly thing, be it never so excellent, but I have observed it subject to change... | |
 | 1837 - 556 pages
...thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad. MEM. 97 O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments hast... | |
 | Martin Luther - History - 1837 - 408 pages
...sought thy precepts. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad. J3 MEM. O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast... | |
 | Robert Sandeman - Christian sects - 1838 - 534 pages
...is thus described. " Thy righteousness, O God, is very high. — O God, who is like unto thee ! — I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad !" Yet, with all this in his eye, he could hold up his face before the Father, and confidently say,... | |
 | 1838 - 388 pages
...Righteousness ! To know the will and pleasure of .the great Monurch and Universal King of the World, I have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Whatever other knowledge a man may be endued withal, if he do not know the will of God, and spend his... | |
 | Samuel Horatio Stearns - Congregational churches - 1838 - 436 pages
...all, from the depraved nature of man, he breathed out his soul in fervent aspirations to his God, " I have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad." It is broad ; for it covers the whole character. It is broad ; for it fills up every want. It is broad... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - Sermons - 1838 - 586 pages
...professed Christians, but in the writings of the men " who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." " I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad." ' The two principal sources of error in the Apostolic age were derived, on the one hand, from Jewish... | |
 | William Gearing - Devotional exercises - 1838 - 188 pages
...no further to go, and we need not, there is scope enough to keep within these limits. David says, " I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceedingly broad," Psa. cxix. 96. It is as if he had said, " I have walked over the fair plains of... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad. MEM. 97 O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments hast... | |
 | Church history - 1839 - 868 pages
...and found wanting, every earthly hope ; but this shall more endear God's whole revelation to him : " I have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad." Part XIII. MEM. Thus be sets out once more with quick, steady pace. He is like Jacob after the night... | |
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad. 
