 | Thomas Gisborne - Christian ethics - 1810 - 446 pages
...But, however valuable it may be, you are not pursuing it in the method most likely to be successful. Except the Lord build the house , their labour is...that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman tvaketh but in main. It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise tip early, and so late take... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...own wickedness, the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers ; but peace shall be upon Israel. EXCEPT the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. 2 Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 3 It is but lost labour that ye haste... | |
 | George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...reserved, that the grace of the Giver may excel in all things, according to the saying of the Prophet, ' Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but...that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain (t).' ' It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...God. However much you run, however much you ' contend, you stand in need of him who gives the crown. Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but...that " build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wakeih tation directly maintains the chief principles of wha is called Calvinism, without... | |
 | Charities - 1814 - 402 pages
...had been sent over by the Directors, preached in It. His text consisted of the following words : " Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it." The Superintendant, the Council, and all the Colony were present. There was no one thing (as far as... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...seed : shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. PSALM 127- Nisi Dominus. EXCEPT the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it. 2 Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain. 3 It is but lost labour that ye... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 644 pages
...God. However much you run, however much you contend, you stand in need of him who gives the crown. ' Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but...that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain (d)C 1 know, says he, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle... | |
 | Episcopal Church - Anglican Communion - 1819 - 558 pages
...shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. Psalm 127. Nisi Dominus. XCEPT the Lord -build the house, their labour is but lost that build it. 2 Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain. E 3 It is but lost labour that ye... | |
 | Thomas Bowen (chaplain.) - Prisoners - 1820 - 360 pages
...truly believe what the Scriptures have made known to us, and indeed what we find by experienee, that "except the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost that build it ;" we shall never look for success, nor a blessing, to come upon what we undertake, but when we carefully... | |
 | John Hey - Apologetics - 1822 - 516 pages
...through the Holy Spirit. Nor is this peculiar to the new Covenant; the Psalmist does the same. " Except d the Lord build the House, their labour is but lost that build it: Except the Lord keep the city, the •watchman * Hey on Atonement, p. 45. Note. — Introd. to our 2d Part, Sect. 8. b Grotius speaks... | |
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Except the Lord build the house : their labour is but lost that build it. Except the Lord keep the city : the watchman waketh but in vain. 
