 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - Theology - 1825 - 554 pages
...wind that passeth and cometh not again. So Psal. ciii. 15. As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. This natural life is compared, even by natural... | |
 | Pendlebury Houghton - 1825 - 322 pages
...and resources of our own minds, are so utterly inadequate. "Ad for man, his. days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone — but the mercy of the Lord, is, from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear... | |
 | Cottage - 1825 - 164 pages
...in loneliness from the stem. Sad similitude of humanity ! ' As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.' * When youth is joyous, and its pleasant... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Future punishment - 1826 - 426 pages
...Father be abundantly more so ? " For he kncweth our frame, he remembereth that we arc but dust ; as for man, his days are as grass, as the flower of the field so he flourisheth, and is known no more." Verses 14, 15. Solomon says of the end of man:- — "Then shall the dust return... | |
 | 1826 - 538 pages
...this, I will mention as a kind of text, Psalm ciii. 15, 16. " As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more." These words are so simple and so affecting,... | |
 | 1826 - 870 pages
...powerfully than at that moment the truth and the strength of the Psalmist's words, " Man is as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more." Over the once fair scene before me had fearfully... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - Theology - 1826 - 446 pages
...many other places of the Scripture. The royal Psalmist in particular thus expresseth himself: As for man, his days are as grass ; as the flower of the field so he flour isheth. For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 478 pages
...1 ought to have done. Is it possible that I am ashamed of Christ and his cause ?" "June 12. 'As for man, his days are as grass. As the flower of the field he flourisheth ; the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof is remembered no more.'... | |
 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 514 pages
...meditation. 1. Of the vanity and shortness of this present life, and all the enjoyments thereof: As for man, his days are as grass : as the flower of the...he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof knoweth it no more. 2. Of the everlasting mercy of God to the faithful... | |
 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 518 pages
...meditation. 1. Of the vanity and shortness of this present life, and all the enjoyments thereof: As for man, his days are as grass: as the flower of the field, so he fiourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof knoweth it no more.... | |
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As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 
