 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 540 pages
...party : Death dashes all their schemes, so far as they have any concern in them. Psalm cxlvi. 4. " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ; in that very day his thoughts perish. When men are dead, they cease to bite and devour others ; as it is said to have been of old a proverb... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...party : Death dashes all their schemes, so far as they have any concern in them. Psalm cxlvi. 4. " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ; in that very day his thoughts perish. When men are dead, they cease to bite and devour others ; as it is said to have been of old a proverb... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...advancing his worldly interest ; but, before he gets it wrought out, death comes, and cuts it out : " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth...that very day his thoughts perish," Psalm cxlvi. 4. Secondly, When death comes, they haveno solidgrounds to hope for eternal happiness : " For what is... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 476 pages
...advancing his worldly interest; but, before he gets it wrought out, death comes, and cuts it out : " His .breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth...that very day his thoughts perish," Psalm cxlvi. 4. Secondly, When death comes, they have no solid gi'ounds to hope for eternal happiness : " For what... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1811 - 494 pages
...fruitless a thing is it * to put our trust in princes, or in the Son of man, in ' whom there is no help ? His breath goeth forth, he * returneth to his earth, in that very day his thoughts * perish,' Psal. cxlvi. 3,4. Man is too weak a thing to encourage or support our confidence. And, (4), What a... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...death there is no remembrance of thee ; in the grave who shall give thee thanks?" and Psal. cxlvi. 4. "His . breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." And Eccles. ix. 5. " The living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything." From all... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...daring arrogance; " Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his [free] thoughts perish. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help." He is an abomination... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1812 - 508 pages
...advancing his worldly interest; but . before he gets it wrought out, death comes and cuts it out. " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth. In that very day his thoughts perish," Psal. cxlvi. 4. Secondly, When death comes, they have no solid ground to hope for eteriaal happines.... | |
 | T. T., Christian parent - 1812 - 248 pages
...Israel." Jer. 18. 6. * Q. 20 — When does the power of man come to an end ? A. — When he dies\ «* His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ; in that very day his thoughts perish." Ps. 146. 4. H * Q. 21 — Will the power of God ever come to an end ? A. — No, never. " For thine... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 498 pages
...is vanity ! Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom is no help," Eccl. i. 2. " His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, in that very day his thoughts perish," Psal. cxlvi. 3, 4. " As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth;... | |
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Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God... 
