 | Thomas Boston - 1799 - 414 pages
...and their children dance.. They take tl1e timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the found of the organ. They fpend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they fay unto God, Depart from us ; for we defire not the knowledge of thy ways." Pfal. Ixxiii.... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 684 pages
...their " children dance : they take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the " found of the. organ : they fpend their days in wealth, and in a " moment go down to the grave." The fame character doth the prophet Amos give of them, Amos vi. 4, 5, 6. " They ftrctch them«« felves... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pages
...and ere they are aware they dafh on the rock of prefumption, and go to the bottom : Job, xxi. 13. " They fpend . their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." To ethers a ftcrm arifes, they are tofled, grow hopelefs, and then fplit on the rock of defpair. Whereas... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...trodden ?. Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
...their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave." .,_ . • ..;. r But others do good and communicate without affluence. By small contributions often... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...that provoke God, are secure : into whose hands God bringeth abundantly? Job xii. 6: that they spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave ? ch. xxi. 1 3 : and, as the Psalmist seconds him, There are no bands in their death, but their strength... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend listines be upon him. 18 And David said unto Saul, 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 500 pages
...condition of prosperous wicked men ; a principal circumstance of whose felicity is, that they spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave §, ie without sickness, or the terrors of slow-approaching death. The lot which prosperous libertines of all times,... | |
 | Clergy - 1811 - 394 pages
...their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. But others do good and communicate without affluence. By small contributions often repeated, by applications... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 514 pages
...prosperous wicked men ; a principal circumstance of .whose felicity is, that they spend their days m wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave §, ie •without sickness, or the terrors of slow-approaching death. The lot which prosperous libertines of all times,... | |
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Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us ; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 
