 | Samuel Rutherford - Reformation - 1818 - 436 pages
...estrangement! what wandering! what frequent conversing with self and the creature! Is not here the bed shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it?...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it? Isa. xxviii. 20. When shall we attain to a living in only, only God! and be estranged from all the... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...it pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrapJiimself in it." This was widely different from their expectations. All their calculations failed.... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the LORD shall rise up aS in hi rose If HI it. 21 For the that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...and by night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." The doctrine of limited, partial salvation, and never ending punishment, in which there is no mercy,... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...obedience, we may pass our verdict in the figurative, but very expressive language of Isaiah : " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it, Isa. xxviii. 20. It can neither give rest to the alarmed conscience, nor afford protection to the guilty... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...pass over, by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the im to cease ; without his own reproach he shall cause...him. 19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort 21 For the LOUD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth [tpith mercy. as in the valley... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 pages
...justly abhor me ;f I must have a righteousness better than my own to justify me ; as for my own, the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that a inan can wrap himself in it.£ When I think of my past wicked life, and this wicked heart within... | |
 | Thomas Halyburton - 1825 - 392 pages
...it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than he can wrap himself in it." This I found verified to my sad experience. Notwithstanding the felt vanity... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a mon 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... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 418 pages
...establish 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... | |
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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. 
