...heart was hot within me ; then fpake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know my end, and the meafure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." * — O, that they would contemplate the great defign of Providence, with regard to their immortality,...

...Kindled, and forthwith utter'd I these words : ( Lord, let me know my end, and of my days The number, what it is, that I may know How frail I am.' Behold, my days are made As 't were an hand-breadth ; nothing is my age ; Man in his best estate is vanity....

...are Jearfatty made." 4f/2/y, In respect of our frailty. The same may be said, The Psalmist prays, " O make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Surely every man, at his best state, is altogether vanity." The scripture, to express the vanity and...

...: a fire with vehement heat in my breast, it broke forth into such expressions as these. » Ver. 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it it ; that I may know bow frail I um.~] Lord, I do not murmur nor repine at roy sufferings ; but that...

...heart was hot within me, white I was musing the fire burned : then spake I with my tongue. 4 LOUD, " ixf that I may know how fr^il I am. 5 Behold, thou hnst made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age...

...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of...hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in...

...generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mint' end, and the measure of my daiis, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold...hand-breadth^ and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state, is altogether vanity. The life to which we fondly cling shall vanish in...

...hour will tell the story of a toilsome life, and another generation will forget that we have been. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail 1 am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee : verify...

...and limited, our days are determined, and our months numbered. Hence David prays, Psal. xxxix. 4. ' Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.' Our days are measured ; they are as the days of an hireling. As the hireling hath a set time to work...

...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...