 | T. WARD AMD CO. - 1844 - 444 pages
...Yes, all that you have ever done or can do to weave a robe of self-righteousness, is lost labour. " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering is narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Salvation is a free gift, and not a reward bestowed.... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 ople mid the covering narrower than that he can wrap lihnseJf in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in... | |
 | John Russell Hurd - Bible - 1844 - 860 pages
...righteousness of man, of which it may be justly said, " The bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself upon, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it," (Is. xxviii. 20.) This garment down to the foot, may be considered equivalent as a figure to the coat... | |
 | Richard Hastings Graves - 1845 - 1022 pages
...hold of something on which to fasten a plea, only to find themselves more signally condemned — " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." ' They themselves now admit that they are without Episcopal superintendence ; but they express their... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - Church group work - 1845 - 364 pages
...before. And in nine cases out of ten, is not private convenience at the bottom, after all ? Verily, " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." But supposing it was not a direct violation of the sabbatical law, for ministers to travel, would it... | |
 | Baptists - 1855 - 308 pages
...it served me for a covering, and resting place, about like that spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, " For 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." Here I rested until sometime... | |
 | Robert Townley - Second Advent - 1845 - 196 pages
...it reduces the Bible to a very small revelation, to be at all consistent; " the bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than a man may wrap himself in it ;" moreover, we are persuaded that a* Calvinism is opposed to Arminianism,... | |
 | Women - 1914 - 470 pages
...are not Professor Smith's. They are the prophet's: In returning and rest shall be your confidence: For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on; the covering narrower than he can wrap himself in." ' ' I wonder if that is why we go askew ? ' ' she... | |
 | Bible - 1914 - 592 pages
...foundation a stone " : " in Zion " means " consisting of Zion " : Zion is the stone. laa. xxviii. 20 :" The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it." Cf. Burckhardt, Egyptian Proverbs, No. 411, " According to the measure of the clothes stretch the legs."... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1915 - 652 pages
...cubbish exuberance of halfgrown boys; we wish for this New Gospel a swift and decisive collapse : " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." JAMES TAFT HATFIELD. A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.* " If history has any value," says Mr. L. Cecil Jane,... | |
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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. 
