 | 1611 - 360 pages
...Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, C I have spent my strength for nought, and 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... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pages
...refrained my lips; 0 Lord, thou With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me O Lord, Psal. xl. 9, 11. I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, find my'work with my God, Isa. xlix. 4. O ! may God animate us with more... | |
 | 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 duly apportioned.... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...Then I faid, I have laboured in vain, I have fpent my ftrength for nought and in vain ; yet furely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work with my God." — But here fome who are under difficulties may propofe this ^ueftion, How mall a perfon manage this... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1803 - 422 pages
...lips; O Lord, thou knowest. With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord, Psal. xl. 9,1.1. 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. O ! may God animate us with more... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1804 - 442 pages
...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 with this... | |
 | 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 [is]... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1806 - 460 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
