| Benjamin Whichcote - Theology - 1751 - 418 pages
...9. Our days upon earth are a Jhacloui, which if once a cloud come, the fhadow vanifhes. "Jab xiv. 1, 2. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He comet h forth like a flower, and is cut down : hefteeth alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. Gen.... | |
| Clement Ellis - 1756 - 266 pages
...•Condition. For, 1. Do we not, to our Sorrow; fee and 'feel that to be true which is told us, Job •xiv. i, 2. Man that is born of a 'Woman, is of few Days, and full of Trouble. He cemetb up like a Flower, and is cut down i he fieeth alfo as a Sbadov), •and conthiuetb not. And... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1764 - 394 pages
...D 2 SE R SEUMON X. .JO B's Account of T HE SHORTNESS and TROUBLE; o F LIFE, confidered. JOB xiv. i, 2. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble: — He cometh forth like a flower; and is cut down; he fleeth alfo as ajhadow, and continuetb not. THERE is fomething in... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1775 - 228 pages
...TROUBLES of LIFE, CONSIDERED. -• ••• ' ?•••«: r» •• « r ~ V 7". SERMON X. JOB xiv. i, 2. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble : — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down ; be fleeth alfo as ajhadow, and continuetb not. THERE is fomething... | |
| William Martin Trinder - Sermons - 1793 - 312 pages
...and glory, both now and for ever. Amen. SE R SERMON XIV. ON THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFf, JOB xiv. i, 2. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He comet h forth like a flower, and is cut down : he fleet h alfo as . a Jhadow, and continue! h not.... | |
| Missions - 1804 - 664 pages
...Shoveller, Skemp and Smith. Mr. \Vilks spoke over the body, from that striking monition, Prov. xxvii. 1, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Several funeral-sermons were preached for him. in different places: one, particularly... | |
| 1799 - 396 pages
...the uncertainty of life and health. Scarcely a week passes without some event that seems to say, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth ;" " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." No. 204. DECEMBER, 1861.... | |
| 1803 - 490 pages
...first day of the new year, preached with good elocution, twenty-three minutes, on Prov.xxvii. 5 . " Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." This was the first text on which he preached in Malpas church ; and it happened to... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1803 - 476 pages
...SERMON X. • • '* JOB'S ACCOUNT OF THE SHORTNESS AND. TROUBLES OF LIFE CONSIDERED. JOB fi'f. I, 2. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble ;— He comcth forth like a flower, and is eut down : he fleeth alfo as a lhadow, and continued! not. 1HER... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...delight ufctothy soul. Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. From the same.... | |
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