 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 páginas
...refrained my lips; 0 Lord, thou With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me O Lord, Psal. xl. 9, 11. I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, find my'work with my God, Isa. xlix. 4. O ! may God animate us with more noble motives ! God grant,... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin - 1801 - 206 páginas
...prophecy represented him as lamenting the unsuccessfulness of his preaching, and saying, " I have laboured in vain ; I have " spent my strength for nought, and in vain." It is well known to you, that the apostles, notwithstanding that thousands were sometimes converted... | |
 | 1832 - 852 páginas
...each as he falls, must feel the melancholy and not altogether groundless conviction, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain," since little will or can be done in comparison to what mightbe effected, if the labour were duly apportioned.... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 páginas
...whom Israel nhall be glorified ; or, I will be 4 glorified in Israel.* Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; / have bnn rejected by the Jews, and few of them have believed : [yet] surely my judgment [is] with... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 páginas
...perdition ; that the scripture might be fulfilled," John xvii. 12. But O how depressing to reflect, " I have labored in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain,'' Isai. xlix. 4, to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 722 páginas
...efficacious, he left the WJ* .. •» T}ie Pareorage-houpe, fr J ' ' Vant to cry, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." His natural modesty prevented him from, cultivating acquaintance with many who valued his writings.... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1814 - 522 páginas
...government and peace, there shall be no end ;" and represents the Messiah as saying, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ;" and again says, "He shall rebuke many people, and smite the earth with the Rod OF -HIS MOUTH. "J... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 586 páginas
...glorified." And after complains of the obstinacy of the ungrateful synagogue; " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain, yet sui^ly my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with God." And immediately after it is added, " And... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 406 páginas
...of heart that the prophet asks, "who hath believed our report?" and on another occasion he mentions, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nought and : * " But whatever be the circumstance! the follower of Jesus is placed, anfl ever be the discouragements... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 598 páginas
...without its desired success : thus he is represented by the prophet, as complaining, / have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain, chap. xlix. 4. and, when he had almost finished his ministry among them, and looked upon Jerusalem... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent My strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely My judgment is with th» Lord, and My work with My God. 
