...which I now enjoy the sleep of nature, will by and by feel me chilling it with the damps of death. " Lord, make me " to know mine end and the measure of...• ' " what it is, that I may know how frail I am !'' And surely it requires contrivance and difficulty to keep off reflection so reasonable and salutary....

...down. He fieeth also as a shadow and continueth not. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the number of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Blessed be the God and father...

...seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand breadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee. Thou turnest...

...but I shall enjoy a long life, free from all such miserable or offensive disorders." Rather say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am." Hence learn too, the much greater loathsomeness of sin. Some of you do not know what I mean by this...

...amplitude, it is scanty, compared with the bounty and the mercy of its Maker." June 4. ., , JPSALM xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is. that 1 may know how frail I am. His present Majesty, KING GEORGE III. born 1738. It is reported of a noble...

...stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: thett spake 1 with my tongue, 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it; that I may know how frail 1 am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age...

...answers to this important question ; kneel down before him who has thy life in his hand, and say, " Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, that I may know how frail 'I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age as...

...when a sermon was preached by his minister, to a very crowded congregation, from PsaJm xxxviii. 4. " Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." He has left an example worthy of imitation, and a testimony in the minds of all who knew him, " that...

...how suddenly it may be executed. To this state of uncertainty, the prayer of David is appropriate: Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I inay know how frail I am;9 for the knowledge of our frailty may cause attention to the Prophet's advice,...

...and the ingratitude of man ; the transient miseries of time, and the durable glories of eternity. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days what it is : that / may know how frail I am. Wearied with the contradiction of sinners, and sickening at the prospect...