 | 1873 - 984 pages
...Deliverer; my Shield, and He in Whom I trust." (ver. 2.) " Who subdueth my people under me." (ver. 2.) " Lord, what is man, that Thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that Thou takest account of him !" (ver. 3.) " Bow Thy heavens, O Lord, and come down." (ver. 5.) "... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 412 pages
...when he had said this, he wait out again. - - p. I, SERMON II. GOD'S MORAL GOVERNMENT. Psalm cxliv. 3. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? --------p. 33 SERMON III. THE LOVE OF GOD AND MAN. 1 John iv. 20.... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 516 pages
...nought; his time passeth away like a shadow!" In the new translation the words are stronger still: " What is man that thou takest knowledge of him ? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him ?" Here the Psalmist seems to consider the life of man as a moment,... | |
 | William Bates - Justification (Christian theology) - 1815 - 406 pages
...inconceivable distance there is between God and man, that it is wonderful God will spend a thought upon us. " Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him ? or the Son of man that thou makest account of him? Man is like to vanity, his days are as a sha r dow that passeth away."... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...used to look up to them as their chief dependence and support: we sigh, and Say with the Psalmist, '*' Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ; or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away."... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Christian life - 1818 - 292 pages
...heavens are not clean, and whose angels he chargeth with folly." Well may we exclaim with the Psalmist, " Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him, or the son of man that thou makest account of him?" and with the beloved disciple, " Behold, what manner of love the... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Christian life - 1818 - 280 pages
...heavens are not clean, and whose angels he chargeth with folly." Well may we exclaim with the Psalmist, " Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him, or the son of man that thou makest account of him ?" and with the beloved disciple, " Behold, what manner of love the... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Christian life - 1818 - 266 pages
...heavens are not clean, and whose angels he chargeth with folly." Well may we exclaim with the Psalmist, " Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him, or the son of man that thou makest account of him ?" and with the beloved disciple, " Behold, what manner of love the... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 548 pages
...cxliv. 3.) where, speaking of God's condescensionto man in his fallen and degraded state, he sa'nti, « Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, thut thou makest account of him? Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passelh away."... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...under me. BLESSED be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. 3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity ; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.... | |
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and raptures, and swallowed up in the embraces of eternal sweetness, and to be lost, as it were, in the source and fountain of happiness and bliss! Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that thon makest 
