 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pages
...small part of affliction, but to hear and understand the report of those calamities. XXVIII. 20. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. These wicked ones shall have small ease, during the continuance of their lewdness : they shall be as... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1837 - 406 pages
...to Mr. Knox's averment, take up the parable of the prophet : The bed is shorter, than that a man may stretch himself on it : and the covering narrower, than that he can wrap himself in it. With deep regret, one cannot help seeing, that such an allegation, as that of Mr. Knox, is likely to... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1837 - 350 pages
...to Mr. Knox's averment, take up the parable of the prophet: The bed is shorter, than that a man may stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower, than that he can wrap himself in it. With deep regret, one cannot help seeing, that such an allegation, as that of Mr. Knox, is likely to... | |
 | James Hervey - 1837 - 730 pages
...their own righteousness;" and, alas ! " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it," Isa. xxviii. 20. There is no true rest for a sinner from the works of his own hands ; no covering for... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...pass over, By day and by night : And it shall be a vexation only 4 to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, That... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1838 - 438 pages
...affection. The creature cannot yield, what this idolatry demands. " The bed," as the prophet speaks, " is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." The stream is too shallow, for the soul to find its depth. The object, whatever it may be, if over-loved,... | |
 | John Pring - 1838 - 588 pages
...day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. FOR THE BED is SHORTBB THAN THAT A MAN CAN STRETCH HIMSELF ON IT ; and the...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim ; he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...trying seasons, as is here observed, " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." As for knowledge in the abstract, and independent altogether of religion, it is a thing of which we... | |
 | 1839 - 1060 pages
...pass over, by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only \\to understand the report. 20 For 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount cPerazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of d Gibeon,... | |
 | John Michael Hiffernan - 1839 - 308 pages
...in Him. The capacities of the soul are unbounded, its desires infinite ; and the bed of this world is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Every effort, therefore, to find rest on earth, is but perpetrating upon our own souls the horrid cruelty... | |
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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 
