 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 vapor, that appeareth for a little...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 94edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | William Darrell - 1736 - 340 pages
...Jpeaks. And St. James compares our lives to an exhalation, that appears and vanifhes in a moment. What is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then VAniJheth away, Ja. iv. 14. For take the longeft life, it is but a little while, and fome come... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pages
...; ,and in a mtiment cuts us down ; and the places which knew us, know us no more forever.— " What is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." James iv. 14. Is it wise- ? is it safe, to depend upon such a bubble of the stream... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 540 pages
...having their lives continued. Verse 14. " Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow : i'or what is your life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." And in verse IS, he teaches us that both arc uncertain and dependent 90 the will... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pages
...or on having their lives continued. Verse 1 4. " Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow : For what is your life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth fora little time, and then vanisheth away." And in verse 15, he teaches us that both arc uncertain... | |
 | William Jay - 1812 - 284 pages
...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 appeareth for a little time, and " then vanisheth away." Let me then ask you, how do matters stand with regard to another world ? Are... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pages
...attachment. Our grand object is still the same ; and while we live, let us live like brethren. What is our life ! " It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Ten years have just completed their course since the day of my own ordination.... | |
 | Erastus Worthington - 1827 - 606 pages
...expires, and your feet stumble upon the dark mountains of death. Your day of probation may be short. " For what is your life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away," " Each moment has its sickle, and cuts down The fairest bloom of sublunary bliss."... | |
 | 1829 - 396 pages
...flourishing." IX. To Y»UTH, AS WELL AS TO OTHERS, THE PRESENT IS THE ONtV M»MENT SECURED OR PKOMISI D. " Whnt is your life ? it is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away ; for that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that."... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...sell, and get gain, ' whereas ye know not what shall be on the mor- 14 row ; (for what is your life 1 It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time; and then vanisheth away:) for that ye ought to say, Ff the 15 Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or... | |
 | Alexander Kerr - 1830 - 80 pages
...flourisheth, but a wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more 1" " What is your life ? it is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and thenvanisheth away." Never were these maxims more strikingly verified, than in the subject of this'... | |
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