The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Littell's Living Age - Page vi1855Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 516 pages
...Moses observes in that Psahn that he wrote on occasion of that mortality : Psal. xc. 1O. " The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow : For it is soon cut off, and we flyaway." This great dispensation of God tended to promote the grand design of the redemption of... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 504 pages
...Moses observes in that Psalm that he wrote on occasion of that mortality : Psal. xc. 10. <i The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow s For it is soon cut off* and we fly away." , This great dispensation of God tefcded to promote the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 524 pages
...all our days are passed away in thy wrath : We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine answer ? According to thy fear, so is thy Tvrath. So trach... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 402 pages
...all our days are passed away in thy wrath :. We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? According to thy fear, so is thy wrath. So teach... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 432 pages
...The days of our years are three- . . - . score years and ten ; and if by reason of strength . . they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." But there are few who reach to this term. It is computed, that one half of the human... | |
| William Sherlock - 1814 - 298 pages
...The days of our years are three score years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be four score years, yet is their strength, labor and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and tvejlie away, Psal. xc. 10. There are some exceptions from this general rule, but this is the ordinary... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1816 - 460 pages
...as Moses observes in the Psalm he wrote on the occasion of that mortality. Psalm 90:10. "The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by...strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." Man's life being cut so very short, tended to prepare the way for poor short-lived men... | |
| Miss Grierson - 1821 - 92 pages
...you know the period of man's life is diminished to a span; the days of the years of our life are now threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength...strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off', and we fly away.' — When the Lord correcteth man for iniquity, he maketh our beauty consume away as a... | |
| Charles Bradley (Vicar of Glasbury.) - 1823 - 370 pages
...meditation, a^ thought,' which is of a nature still more fleeting and transient. 10. ' The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by...strength labor and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.' This again might be primarily spoken by Moses, concerning Israel. The generation of those... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1876 - 444 pages
...that is told. The days of our years are threescore years nnd ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Bo... | |
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