 | Joshua Toulmin - Unitarianism - 1801 - 206 pages
...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... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1806 - 650 pages
...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... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1807 - 538 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1810 - 452 pages
...heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye — Acts vii. 51. " 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 — Isaiah xlix. 4." But that... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 722 pages
...making the word efficacious, he left the WJ* .. •» T}ie Pareorage-houpe, fr J ' ' Vant to cry, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." His natural modesty prevented him from, cultivating acquaintance with many who valued his writings.... | |
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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. 
