 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pagina’s
...assail them ? He urged him to the vilest crimes. Do they complain of successless exertion ? He said, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." Have they irreligious connexions? "Neither did his own brethren also believe on him." Are their souls... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1832 - 482 pagina’s
...of seeing my dear people attending to their eternal interests, that I may not have reason to say, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." At the communion-table the same day, he said, ' Christians seem to expect that their views of Christ,... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1833 - 394 pagina’s
...is, profitless for themselves, and for the good of others. And again, Isai. xlix. 4, " Then I said, I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ;" that is, when Israel had departed from the worship of Jehovah, and had been given up to the service... | |
 | 1834 - 740 pagina’s
...subjects, had received as yet but little or no Fulfilment. He exclaimed, by the mouth of the prophet, " I have laboured in vain — I have spent my strength for nought, and in Tain." The prospect, however, begins to brighten, as the solemn hour approached when he was to see... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1833 - 404 pagina’s
...been requited with indifference, sometimes perhaps with scorn. He is compelled to say or to suspect, " I have laboured in vain; I have spent my strength for nought."* What a grievous wound to the spirit ! What a chilling damp on the fervent and dedicated heart ! But... | |
 | 1833 - 776 pagina’s
...of seeing my dear people attending to their eternal interests, that I may not have reason to say, ' I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought.' " At the communion-table, the same day, he said, " Christians seem to expect that their views of Christ,... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pagina’s
...assail them ? He urged him to the vilest crimes. Do they complain of successless exertion? He said, "I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought." Have they irreligious connexions? "Neither did his own brethren also believe on him." Are their souls... | |
 | Manton Eastburn - 1833 - 272 pagina’s
...useless, he is often ready to lay down his commission at his Master's feet ; to say, ' I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain.'" My brethren, are there not some of you, who think uot of these things? who view the duties of the ministerial... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pagina’s
...the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.''! But O how depressing to reflect, * ward ;"j to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto death," and... | |
 | Hugh Pearson - 1834 - 456 pagina’s
...and sink in trouble. The words of Christ from Isaiah xlix. 4. often occur to my mind. ' Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.' But indeed, the following verse... | |
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Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
