 | Henry Venn - Christian life - 1811 - 464 pages
...they can lay with their own hands ; for the bfd is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Lead them to the Rock that is higher than themselves, to the Lord our righteousness. Finally, we entreat,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...prevailed can no longer be maintained. ' The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it ; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.' The Conference may refuse to have open questions of doctrine, as it has refused the admission of laymen... | |
 | Ethan Smith - Antichrist - 1814 - 598 pages
...vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the Lprd shall rise up, as in mount Perazim (where God miraculously destroyed the Philistines before... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...it pass over, by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that... | |
 | William Hammond - Salvation - 1816 - 320 pages
...righteousness which your own hands have wrought, is a bed shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it, Isa. xxviii. 20. But the righteousness of the Son of God is a soft and ea-. sy bed, and long enough... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Religion - 1817 - 190 pages
...agreement with Hell shall' not stand. For your Bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than. that he can wrap himself in it." — Isaiah xxviii. O few among these men consent to pray and hear by proxy ; and while others, more... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 184 pages
...agreement with Hell shall not stand. For your Bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it."—Isaiah xxviii. O few among these men consent to pray and hear by proxy; and while others, more... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...shall it pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." This was widely different from their expectations. All their calculations failed. Their covenant with... | |
 | Samuel Rutherford - Reformation - 1818 - 436 pages
...estrangement! what wandering! what frequent conversing with self and the creature! Is not here the bed shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it?...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it? Isa. xxviii. 20. When shall we attain to a living in only, only God! and be estranged from all the... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...precious stones builded on the sure foundation. In verse 20, self-righteousness is described thus, " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." And in verse 22d, it is said that there is " a consumption determined upon the whole earth :" When... | |
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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 
