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" MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. "
Memoir, observations, &c. Sermons. Index - Page 73
by Robert Hall - 1833
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Sermons, on practical subjects, Volume 1

Samuel Carr - Sermons, English - 1801 - 390 pages
...lesson, not to set our affections on tilings below. The great and irreversible iaw of nature is this : " Man that is born of a woman " hath but a short time to live, and is full of "misery: he cometh up, and is cut down like " a flower, he fleeth as it were...
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 6

1804 - 476 pages
...important truth. •r ""•.The great teacher, Death, Is ever sounding in our ears the •awfal warning, ' man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live .' that we must shortly follow the friend that is gone •liefore us : that the knell which...
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The Book of common prayer reformed. Together with the Book of psalms: and a ...

John Disney - 1802 - 342 pages
...attend the body are come to the grave, and the corpse is laid into the earthy the minister shall say ; MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble : he cometh up, and is cut down like i2 a flower ; a flower; he fleeth...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1806 - 854 pages
...and disquieteth himself in vain, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow."...
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Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and ...

Francis Quarles - Consolation - 1807 - 410 pages
...which I perceive nothing but misery, nothing but man ; and in that misery, the paraphrase of man : " Man that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of trouble." Were not man's time short, man were the miserablest of all creatures,...
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London;: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British ..., Volume 6

David Hughson - London (England) - 1809 - 820 pages
...voice was heard through the remaining part of the painful ceremony, but the clergyman's and clerk's — "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; ha flecth, as it were,...
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. William Jones ..., Volume 4

William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...ground. Pope's Homer, b. 6. 1. 181. How sublime and affecting is that reflection in the book of Job — " Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery; he cometh up like a flower, and is cut down*:" In the. same figurative...
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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements...

Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...come to the Grave, -while the Corpse is made ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said, MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were...
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Considerations on the life and death of Abel; on the life and translation of ...

George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1812 - 136 pages
...us what was afterwards expressed in terms at large, by another of the afflicted servants of God — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, andis full of misery : lie. cometh up, "and is cut down like a flower; he fleethas it were...
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Reflections on Death

William Dodd - Death - 1815 - 236 pages
...one, and meet the other with more courage and constancy. For what is man, and what is his life ? — Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, — short indeed, suppose it to extend to the utmost length of human existence, even to fourscore...
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