 | Whole duty - 1777 - Počet stránok 582
...perfect acts of a rational and chriftian life. Wherefore St. James declares, Ye know not what mall be on the morrow ; for what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanifheth away. Confequently, Such a one has lived a great while, how fhort in . foever... | |
 | 1801 - Počet stránok 576
...thyielf of to-morrow," fays Solomon, •'* for thou knoweft not what a day may bring forth." •' What is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time', and then vanifheth away." Death pays no refpeft to the regular courfe of nature. It feldoms... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1794 - Počet stránok 502
...following admonition : Ye know not [much lets, can ye be the difpofers of] what ihall be on the morrow. morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vaniflieth. away. Ye ought to fay, if the Lord will, we (hall live, and do this, or... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - 1794 - Počet stránok 500
...art, and unto duft malt thou return. An infpired pen has both ftarted and refolved the queftion: What is your life ? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanimeth away. James iv. 14. If fo, " Why all this toil, for triumphs of an hour ? What... | |
 | John Hinchliffe - 1796 - Počet stránok 228
...city, and continue there a year, and buy, and fell, and get gam : Te know not, fays he, what foall be on the morrow ; For what is your life ? It is even a vapour that appearetb for a little time, and vanijheth away. This plain reflection , obvious as it is to the understanding,... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1796 - Počet stránok 428
...the fhortnefs, and particularly the uncertainty, of life, " Ye know not," fajth he, " what .*' fhall be on the morrow. For what is " your life ? it is even a vappur which ap" peareth for a little time, and then vanifh" eth away." Thus David defcribes the... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1799 - Počet stránok 204
...but themselves." We marvel at the insensibility of others, and are ourselves as insensible as they. " Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will...? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." The other fact to which men are prone to be so strangely insensible,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - Počet stránok 684
...city, and remain there '• a year, and buy and fell, and get gain; whereas ye know not '« what (hall be on the morrow : for what is your life ? It is even a " vapour that appears for a little while, and then vanifheth away, Jam. iv. 13, 14. How foon are the purpofcs ot... | |
 | George Redford - 1843 - Počet stránok 188
...cannot say, I shall live till to-morrow, and will then give my best attention to my soul's affairs. " For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away," James iv. 14. Even while you think to enjoy some future period, the... | |
 | 1802 - Počet stránok 610
...belongs to the same subject, and that it is connected with ch. iv. 13. 14.. where St. James had said, " Go to now, ye that say, to-day or tomorrow we will...get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on ' the morrow." If this supposition be true, ch.v. 12. contains not a prohibition of serious oaths, by which... | |
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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 
