 | Jonas Hanway - Child welfare - 1766 - 164 pages
...infinite mercy and goodnefs, to teach me to confidcr, that man who is born of a woman hath but a fliort time to live; that he cometh up and is cut down like...never continuing in one ftay. Teach me, O Father of mercy, to confider, that in the midft of life I am in death ; and of whom can I feek for fuccour, but... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Sermons, English - 1844 - 608 pages
...considereth well that " man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery?" that "he cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ?" that " he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay?" Who layeth this to heart, and looking to his uncertain state,... | |
 | George Moberly - 1844 - 386 pages
...uncertain : that man which is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ; that he cometh up. and is cut down like a flower, that he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In all this stirring scene of earthly hopes and fears, of... | |
 | Fielding Ould - 1864 - 370 pages
...night, — that man, who is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ; that he cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ; that he fleeth, as it were, a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. May each of us remember, that in the midst of life we are... | |
 | Prayers - 1877 - 168 pages
...reflect to-night, that man who is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery ; that he cometh up and is cut down like a flower ! that he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. May each of us remember that in the midst of life we are... | |
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Help us seriously to reflect this night, — that man, who is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery ; that he cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ; that he fleeth, as it were, a shadow, and never continueth in one... 