...21. Cast me not off in the time of old age ; forsake me not when my strength faileth. Psalm Ixxi. 9. Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age as nothing K«»fnre thee. Spare me...

...hastening, as the volume of Scripture. " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth," said David, " and mine age is as nothing before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity :" Ps. xxxix, 5 ; comp. xc, 9, 10. " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower...

...therefore, with much propriety be said, We are fearfully made. The Psalmist prays, O make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I arn. Surely every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity. The sacred volume, to express the...

...Psal. xxxix. 3. David was meditating on mortality, and see how his heart was affected with it, ver. 4. " Lord, make me to know mine end and the measure...days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am." The reason our affections are so chill and cold in spiritual things, is, because we do not warm ourselves...

...near in words, and of kin, it seems, in sense to this here ; Lord, prays he, make me to PS. know my end, and the measure of my days, what*' it is, that I may know how frail I am: concerning the drift of which place, as well as of this here, it were obvious to conceive that both...

...that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." " Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that 1 may know how frail I am." " And now, Lord, what wait I for, my hope is in thee. Hear my prayer, O...

...remembrance : ' My heart was hot within me ; while I mused the fire burned; then spake I with my tongue : Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold ! Thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee : verily every...

...need of calling upon God to teach and impress this upon him, for he could not realize it otherwise : "Lord, make me to know mine end; and the measure of...days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am." It is the Lord only that can form in us, by his Spirit, a just appreciation of our latter end. David...

...past, and as a watch in the night."* To the same purpose spake the royal Psalmist, in the 39th Psalm: "Make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing before thee."f 1. Every...

...sorrows, may be briefly comprehended in these few sentences : " Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee...every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain.: he heapeth up riches,...