 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...clean, yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. Job ix. 29, 30, 31. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch...the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself m it. Ita. xxviii. 20. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1832 - 244 pages
...agreement with Hell shall not stand. For you? Bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Isaiah xxviii, the World has always been ready and willing to acknowledge and admire. They are of the... | |
 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 534 pages
...without being able to plead that it was not sufficiently obvious. " The bed is shorter than that he can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." After all vain excuses shall be swept away, and when the disembodied spirit shall stand in His presence... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...look for consolation, it may with truth be .slid, in the proverbial language of Isaiah (xxviii. 20), " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it ;" familiar, but most expressive words, to show their insufficiency to give rest and comfort to the... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 328 pages
...it goeth forth it shall take you : for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the...himself in it : for the LORD shall rise up as in mount Femziin, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work ;... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...it goeth forth it shall take you : for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the...narrower than that he can wrap himself in it: for the LOUD shall rise up ae in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...it goeth forth it shall take you : for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it: forihe LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...no small part of affliction, but to hear and understand the report of those calamities. XXVIII. 20. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. These wicked ones shall have small ease, during the continuance of their lewdness : they shall be as... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification (Christian theology) - 1837 - 730 pages
...such an 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 on it; and the covering narrower than that IIP can wrap himself in it," Isa. xxviii. 20. It can neither give rest to the alarmed conscience, nor... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1837 - 350 pages
...to Mr. Knox's averment, take up the parable of the prophet: The bed is shorter, than that a man may stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower, than that he can wrap himself in it. With deep regret, one cannot help seeing, that such an allegation, as that of Mr. Knox, is likely to... | |
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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. 
