 | David Cranz, Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland - 1831 - 318 pages
...understandings, or quiet the consciences of those who use them : to apply the forcible language of Scripture, " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Towards the close of the year, when the Greenlanders returned to their winter residence at New Herrnhuth,... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...of rest and refreshment ; and were cast into a restless bed, to pass a long and dreary night : " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it" (ver. 20). 1 . Such istheprophecyas a whole ; and now I proceed to point out the use of it made in... | |
 | 1831 - 930 pages
...it pass over, by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and...hands unto the LORD : and the thunders and hail ceas:d 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, lie shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that... | |
 | 1831 - 644 pages
..."righteousnesses," they will "be found as filthy rags before God." Trust not in such a " refuge of lies." — The bed is shorter than " that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it."* Believe it, there is no salvation in any other than in Christ. His atoning blood will reconcile you... | |
 | James Slade - 1832 - 564 pages
...how unable are they to satisfy the desires of an immortal soul ; how poor and disappointing : " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." hai. xxviii. 20. Well is it for man that a certain, and boundless, and everlasting treasure is opened... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...it pass over, by day and by night ; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1832 - 244 pages
...agreement with Hell shall not stand. For you? Bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Isaiah xxviii, the World has always been ready and willing to acknowledge and admire. They are of the... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 pages
...without being able to plead that it was not sufficiently obvious. " The bed is shorter than that he can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." After all vain excuses shall be swept away, and when the disembodied spirit shall stand in His presence... | |
 | 1848 - 508 pages
...look for consolation, it may with truth be .slid, in the proverbial language of Isaiah (xxviii. 20), " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it ;" familiar, but most expressive words, to show their insufficiency to give rest and comfort to the... | |
 | 1837 - 324 pages
...shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it: for the LOUD shall rise up ae in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that... | |
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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 
