 | Thomas Boston - 1787 - 470 էջ
...that plaMteth any thing, neither he that -water eth: but Ctd that givitk the increafe. The Apoftle preached to the Jews, yet the body of that people...infidelity, Rom. x- 16. Who hath believed our report? Yea, Chrift himfelf, who fpoke as never man fpoke, laith concerning the fuccefs of his own miniftry, I have... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin - 1801 - 206 էջ
...and that prophecy represented him as lamenting the unsuccessfulness of his preaching, and saying, " I have laboured in vain ; I have " spent my strength for nought, and in vain." It is well known to you, that the apostles, notwithstanding that thousands were sometimes... | |
 | 1832 - 852 էջ
...sustain, yet, each as he falls, must feel the melancholy and not altogether groundless conviction, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain," since little will or can be done in comparison to what mightbe effected, if the labour... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 էջ
...glorified, in vihom Israel shall be glorified ; or, I will bf 4 glorified in Israel.* Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; / have been rejected by the Jetos, and few of them have believed : [yet] surely my judgment... | |
 | 1806 - 650 էջ
...possible, I shall refer only to one text more, as speaking doctrinally on the point. " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in rain ; yet surely my judgment « with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, sarth the... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1807 - 538 էջ
...prophecy of Isaiah, xlix. 6. iq which the prophet complains, in the name of Christ, of want of success. " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought :" to which God replies that if the issue of his labours should be the most unfavourable that could... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 էջ
...Lord hath chosen Zion. Ver. 1 6. I will clothe her priests with salvation, Sec. Isa. xlix. 4. 1 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. Jer. xv. 19. Thus saith... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 էջ
...destined me, iromall worlds, to be a fit and perfect instrument of his service. XLIX. 4 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. Then I said, I have... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 էջ
...who graciously accepts of both my active and passive obedience. So also verse 5. XLIX. 4 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. XLIX. 5 Though Israel... | |
 | John Brown - 1810 - 722 էջ
...making the word efficacious, he left the WJ* .. •» T}ie Pareorage-houpe, fr J ' ' Vant to cry, " I have laboured in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain." His natural modesty prevented him from, cultivating acquaintance with many who valued... | |
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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. 
