 | John Gregory Pike - 1830 - 380 pages
...be severed off, that piece of cloth, destined to be your shroud." The admonition of the Lord is, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth :" Prov. xxvii. 1 . \Vhat is there so firm in youth, in health, or strength, that on... | |
 | James Parsons - 1830 - 554 pages
...of time, and the possibility of losing every possession and leaving every connexion in a moment. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." " Go to now, ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and... | |
 | Christopher Ralph Muston - 1830 - 458 pages
...scripture, that the tenure by which we hold it is, as uncertain, as it is transient in its duration : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." What can be more slight and precarious than the barrier, which interposes between... | |
 | William Ashmead - 1830 - 522 pages
...season of salvation. " Seek ye the Lord while he may be found ; call ye upon him while he is near. — Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." SERMON XIV. MARK X. 17 - 22. "And when he was gone forth into the way, there came... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1 792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth' — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pages
...As no man reasonably can be elevated with confidence in a good state, presuming on its duration, (' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth;') so no man should be dejected for a bad one, in suspicion that it will abide long... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pages
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what' a day may bring forth1 — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1831 - 332 pages
...can infallibly tell that his life shall be continued here, even for another day, or another night. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Prov. xxvii. 1.) This night thy soul may be required. (Luke xii. 20.) There are thousands... | |
 | 1831 - 670 pages
...are not to do evil that good may come. As to your future intentions, as a minister of the Gospel, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." And if you be a parent, or a husband, is it not written, " Leave thy fatherless children,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 pages
...anyfixed point of security which we could gain, the mind would then have some basis on which to rest. 13 But our condition is such, that every thing wavers...knowest not what a day may bring forth." It is much if,during its course, thou hearest not of somewhat to disquiet or alarm thee. For life never proceeds... | |
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
