 | Joshua Toulmin - 1801 - 206 sider
...and that prophecy represented him as lamenting the unsuccessfulness of his preaching, and saying, " I have laboured in vain ; I have " spent my strength for nought, and in vain." It is well known to you, that the apostles, notwithstanding that thousands were sometimes converted by... | |
 | 1832 - 852 sider
...sustain, yet, each as he falls, must feel the melancholy and not altogether groundless conviction, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain," since little will or can be done in comparison to what mightbe effected, if the labour were duly apportioned.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1804 - 442 sider
...good conscience, we must learn to say with the prophet, or rather with Jesus Christ, / have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God, Isa. xlix. 4. We must content ourselves... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 sider
...glorified, in vihom Israel shall be glorified ; or, I will bf 4 glorified in Israel.* Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; / have been rejected by the Jetos, and few of them have believed : [yet] surely my judgment [is]... | |
 | 1806 - 650 sider
...possible, I shall refer only to one text more, as speaking doctrinally on the point. " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in rain ; yet surely my judgment « with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, sarth the Lord that... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 sider
...the scripture might be fulfilled," John xvii. 12. But O how depressing to reflect, " I have labored in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain,'' Isai. xlix. 4, to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 sider
...Lord hath chosen Zion. Ver. 1 6. I will clothe her priests with salvation, Sec. Isa. xlix. 4. 1 said I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. Jer. xv. 19. Thus saith the Lord,... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1807 - 538 sider
...prophecy of Isaiah, xlix. 6. iq which the prophet complains, in the name of Christ, of want of success. " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought :" to which God replies that if the issue of his labours should be the most unfavourable that could... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 sider
...destined me, iromall worlds, to be a fit and perfect instrument of his service. XLIX. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. Then I said, I have omitted nothing... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 sider
...who graciously accepts of both my active and passive obedience. So also verse 5. XLIX. 4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with, the LORD, and my work with my God. XLIX. 5 Though Israel be not gathered,... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
