 | 1849 - 1188 Seiten
...it is surely coming, and to realize it as near at hand, and to live habitually with reference to it. So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. THAT I MAY KNOW now FRAIL I AM. It is always a view of the nearness of our end that makes us feel our... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1831 - 424 Seiten
...prospects before me, I may be enabled to form a proper estimate of all earthly things. Teach me so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; and, ever remembering that here I have no continuing city, — that a thousand unforeseen events... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 Seiten
...often say, " Well, there is another of the fifteen years gone, and the remainder is rapidly going — So teach me to number my days that I may apply my heart unto wisdom." Yet it was awful for him to know the term of life. None of us would know it if it were in our power.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 Seiten
...make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I ame:" " So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdomf."] e Ps. \\.\ix. 4. f Ps. xc. 12. CCCXXIV. FAMINE A PUNISHMENT FOR SIN. 2 Sam. xxi. 1 . Then... | |
 | Richard Allestree (D.D.) - 1832 - 402 Seiten
...commandments from me. Turn away mine eyes lest they behold vanity, and quicken thou me in thy way. Lord, teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. For the Light of God's Countenance. Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thy face from me ?... | |
 | John Henry Hobart - 1832 - 256 Seiten
...ornaments of grace, I may by patience wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus. Amen. III. Teach me, O Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; ever to rememher my last end, that I may not dare to sin against thee. Let tby holy angels be ever... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 Seiten
...world's returning tide of business or of pleasure. Lord, grant that it may not be so with me. Teach me so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom. Preserve me from the folly of building the fabric of my hopes upon so mutable a foundation as human... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1834 - 100 Seiten
...shall live to see the end of it, God only knows ; I do not desire to look into futurity, I only wish so to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; I only wish to be of use to my family, and to do good in my generation. Perhaps it may please the... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 410 Seiten
...well to any body. — ED. thy paths, that my footsteps slip not;' when we hear a passing bell, ' Oh, teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart to wisdom,' or, ' Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days.' ' Thus may we dart out our... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1834 - 658 Seiten
...himself as a dying person, and that restrained all his inordinations, and so he prayed, '• Lord, teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unt» wisdom." f And therefore the Egyptians used to serve up a skeleton to their feasts, that the... | |
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TEACH me, O Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom ; ever to remember my last end, that I may not dare to sin against thee. 
