 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 598 sider
...without its desired success : thus he is represented by the prophet, as complaining, / have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain, chap. xlix. 4. and, when he had almost finished his ministry among them, and looked upon Jerusalem... | |
 | William Brown (M.D.) - 1816 - 542 sider
...success. He preached his farewell sermon from these solemn and affecting words: " I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." How melting must have been the scene! Surely, it might have touched a heart of stone. In August, 1736,... | |
 | Menzies Rayner - 1816 - 126 sider
...practices, which have long had the sanction of popular favour; yet this gives me but little uneasiness. " My judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." I dictate to no man his religious creed ; I freely declare my own, with the reasons which induce me... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 490 sider
...relate to Europe. Listen, O ye isles, unto me ; and hearken, ye people, from far — / have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him,... | |
 | 1818 - 948 sider
...unto me, Thou art my ser* vaht, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. 4 Then I said, I have laboured ORD. 38 1 Behold, the day» come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to 5 IT And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 456 sider
...the scripture might be fulfilled," John xvii. 12. But O how depressing to reflect, " I have laboured 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... | |
 | Miron Winslow - 1819 - 450 sider
...with little or no success. He preached his farewell sermon from these words, " I said, 1 have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God." What a scene ! Surely the heart of a savage must have melted. Mr. E. sailed from Greenland in 1786.... | |
 | Miron Winslow - 1819 - 446 sider
...with little or no success. He preached his farewell sermon from these words, " I said, 1 have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and...my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my Goa." What a scene ! Surely the heart of a savage must have melted. Mr. E. sailed from Greenland in... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1819 - 496 sider
...hast laboured, — so laboured as to spend thy strength in that service, thou mayest add with him, *« yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work. with my God." 4. The last duty recommendable to these ambassadors, is magnanimity, which is no less needful than... | |
 | Pierre Allix - 1821 - 464 sider
...said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, — yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him,... | |
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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. 
