 | William Stern Palmer - 1817 - 178 pages
...selected from the Epistle of James; and may God lead all such persons seriously to consider it! — Go to 'now, ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we...what shall be on the morrow : for what is your life f 46. It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.9 Miss ELIZA GILBERT... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...you feel not the fact, and think not of consequences, your days are fleeting as a shadow : " You know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what is your...life;? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Soon the short term allotted you on earth will close ; and with it... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...with God ; and the restraint which it lays on the criminal independence of the fallen mind of man. « Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow « we...It is even a vapour that > appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth < away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord * Isa. xl. 28. « will, we shall... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth ; so also shall'the rich man fade away in his waysx. Go to now ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will...? it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth awayr. SECT. 4. A vehement attachment to the enjoyments of this life, stands... | |
 | James Inglis - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 406 pages
...disposing thereof is of the Lord."* "Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into •uch a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell,...life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 514 pages
...then attend, First. To the form of expression which the Apostle condemns. "Go to now, ye that sny, to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and...continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain." In general, we may observe, that this language relates altogether to a worldly project. The principal... | |
 | Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pages
...more frequent and more perfect acts of a rational and Christian life. Wherefore St. James declares, Ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; for what...? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Consequently, Such a one has lived a great while, how short soever the... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...admonition of St. James ; Go to now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and buy, and sell, and get gain, whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow ; , "for what is even your life ? Is it not a vapour, which appeareth for a little time, and then vanisbeth away ? Whereas... | |
 | Baptists - 1821 - 488 pages
...with the dead ? It is probable, tltat at the commencement of the last year some of our readers said, " We will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain," and return home laden with spoils. But the pestilence that wnlketh in darkness, and rngeth at noon... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 442 pages
...exposed to death ? Why do we not more seriously ponder those impressive words of St. James, (v. 13, 14.) "Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will...? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live and do this... | |
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Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little... 
