 | Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 350 Seiten
...the man, who is " in honour" with the world, but " seeketh not the honour which " cometh from God." Man that is in HONOUR, and UNDERSTANDETH NOT, 'is like the beasts that perish. Psal. xlix. 2O. How awful a spectacle to an enlightened and reflecting mind, to behold a man of fortune,... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - 1813 - 288 Seiten
...HIGH, hath sung, " Man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish."—And again, " Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish *." But this merely proves that some beasts perish, and that it is possible for men to be those beasts.... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 Seiten
...Though while he lived, he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself. 18 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. MORNING PRAYER. PSALM L. THE Lord, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world, from... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 Seiten
...whiles he lived he blessed his soul : (and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself:) 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers ; they shall never see light. T MORNING PRAYER. PSA.1.M... | |
 | Visitation of the sick Order for the - 1824 - 132 Seiten
...thou doest well to thyself. He shall go to the generation of his fathers ; they shall never see light. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. ' Psalm Ixxxiv. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1825 - 480 Seiten
...well to thyself. 19. He shall go to the generation of his fathers ; they shall never see light. 20. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. PSALM L. 97. Psalm composed by David, to encourage and to instruct the people who accompanied him,... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 Seiten
...The duties of SUPERIORS. Ruth ii. 4. Boaz said unto the reapers, Jehovah be with you. Psal. xlix. 20. man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. Prov. iii. 35. the wise shall inherit glory. 1 Pet. iv. 10. as every man hath received the gift, even... | |
 | Essays - 1826 - 342 Seiten
...who will believe only the testimony of their natural senses, are atheists without knowing it, for " man that is in honour and understandeth not, is like the beasts which perish." Psalm xlix. Since then, on one hand, the spirits or angels of God in heaven and in man,... | |
 | Essays - 1828 - 368 Seiten
...though the earth appears always to be OVERHEAD, or in the zenith, to the carnal * See Psalm xlix. " Man, that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish." Understandeth not what? Answer.—The object of the Psalm, viz. That Christ Jesus is the only Saviour... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 620 Seiten
...well to themselves; yet shall they go to the generation of their fathers, and shall never see light. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish;" ver. 11,12.17—20. Though " the ungodly prosper in the world and increase in riches," yet he that... | |
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et similis factus est illis. In the Catholic translation of the English College at Douay, the above is justly rendered : — " Man when he was in honour did not understand ; he hath been compared to senseless beasts and made like to them." But in the... 
