 Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : 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...  Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor - Page 241839Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Watts - 1811 - 494 pages
...God, even in all the common affairs of life ! ' Let us not say therefore, that ' to day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and * continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain ; * whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow: ' For what is your life ? It is even a vapour,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 444 pages
...enemy of God." He will not allow the voice of free-will, even in the common course of business : I will go Into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain : ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live and do this, or that. He detests walking in craftiness,... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...in reality ? " Boast not thyself of to-morrow -, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. " Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will...continue there a year, and " buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what " shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It " is even a vapor that... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...not, to bring to nought things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence. •(i) Go to, ye that say, To.day or to-morrow we will go into such...continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow : For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, which... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...contemplate the vanity, the brevity, the uncertainty of life, upon the continuance of which all depends. " Go to now, ye that " say, to-day or to-morrow we will...continue there a year, and buy and sell " and get gain : whereas ye .know not what shall be " on the morrow. For what is your life ? it is even " a vapour,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Sermons, English - 1814 - 572 pages
...constant dependence upon God, even in all the common affairs of life ! Let us not say therefore, that to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and...continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain ; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...love with the present world than with the world to come. " Go to, now, (says the indignant Apostle) ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, arid buy, and sell, and get gain." And truly life is but a vapour to those who misapply its purpose... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1814 - 518 pages
...uncertainty of what he actually holds. To such men I would repeat the serious admonition of St. James : Go to now, ye that say, today or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and buy, and sell, and get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is even your... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...this evening warned of it, and earnestly exhorted to get oil in your vessels with your lamps. — " Go to now, ye that say, To-day or tomorrow we will...continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain ; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Here have we no continuing city. Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will...continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall he on the morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that... | |
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