 | Isaac Watts - Sermons, English - 1814 - 572 pages
...morrow ; for what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanishes away ; for that ye ought to say, if the Lord will. we shall live to do this or that, James iv. 13, 14, 15. And it is the same inference that holy David makes more than... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...ForthatyeougM tosay»Z f Go to now, eome now. J For that ye, &e. Iqstead of whieh ye ought to eay. If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. 16 But now ye rejoiee in your boastings; all sueh rejoieing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knowethto... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye...the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that." (Jas. chap. iv. 13—15.) How different, how gratefully was the conversation of the patriarchs, and... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...what is your life? but a vapour that appears for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15. Whereas ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. 16. But now ye rejoice ;ri your boastings; all such rejoicing is evil. 17. Therefore to him that knoweth... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 572 pages
...buy, and sell, and get gain. Whereas they know not -what shall be on the morrow. And therefore, they ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that, James iv. 13, 15. [2.] When we promise a thing, that is out of our power to perform ; and, much more,... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...he on the morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little season, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord \viIl, we shall live, and do this, or that. Your fathers, where are they f and the prophets, do they... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 554 pages
...shall live another day, and if we do, whether such and such things shall come to pass. " For that you ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that." Therefore he adds in ver. 16, " But now you rejoice in your boastings : all such rejoicing is. evil."... | |
 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
...make promises hastily, and never without (at least a mental') reference to St. James's caution,—" Ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that." But no provisoes are necessary when God makes a promise ; he has a perfect foreknowledge of every future... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...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. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord * Isa. xl. 28. « will, we shall live, and do this, or that.'* If we « believe in God,' we shall own... | |
 | 1831 - 854 pages
...For what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little while, and then vanished] away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that." It is not indeed absolutely necessary that, in speaking of what we intend hereafter to do, we should... | |
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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... 
