| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 páginas
...it pass over, by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27... | |
| Two kingdoms - 1843 - 134 páginas
...through in a moment. It was always interesting to me to observe the diversities of gifts and talents p The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Is. xxviii. 20. r To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and tremhleth... | |
| 1843 - 444 páginas
...how unable are they to satisfy the desires of an immortal soul ; how poor and disappointing : " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." — Isa. xxxviii. 20. Well is it for man that a certain boundless and everlasting treasure is opened... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1843 - 372 páginas
...within short limits, and a vast and anxious region lies beyond, unoccupied and in rebellion. Their " bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower, than that he can wrap himself in it." And then what is to be done with these unreclaimed wastes? — the exploring of them must in consequence... | |
| John Russell Hurd - 1844 - 860 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 himself...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 - 1845 - 364 páginas
...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... | |
| 1855 - 308 páginas
...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 in the thirty-fifth year of my age. " Till then, I saw no danger nigh,... | |
| Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 páginas
...But the sufferings of his body afforded no relief to the tortures of his soul. He found, that truly " the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Walter retained an ineffaceable impression of scripture-truths, which, though he had once disregarded... | |
| 1846 - 492 páginas
...the church which has so long rejoiced in it. After reposing on it for ages, it is now found that ' the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.' It leaves many developments cold and naked. As long as history belonged to the class of things prohibited... | |
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