 | Thomas Halyburton - 1756 - 306 sider
...forth it fhall take you : For morning by mornning mail it pafs over, by day and by night, and it mall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is morter, than that a man! can ftretch himlelf on it : And the covering narrower,than he can wrap himfelf... | |
 | George Redford - 1843 - 188 sider
...corrupt and perverted reasoning, will be disturbed at last by the stern reality of his condemnation. " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it," Isa. xxviii. 20. 7. It is, however, necessary to observe and point out here an opposite error, into... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 400 sider
...seldom absent from the sacrament ; but, to use the language of the Prophet, he found " the bed VOL. I. A shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it,...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." His mind was not unfrequently distressed with the suspicion, th'at he was not so good as he ought to... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 402 sider
...seldom absent from the sacrament ; but, to use the language of the Prophet, he found " the bed VOL. I. A shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it,...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." His mind was not unfrequently distressed with the suspicion, that he was not so good as he ought to... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 sider
...occasion fiainful fears. Some render it, ' nothing but vexation will make you understand 20 instruction.' For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it.] Л proverbial expression, a» if he had 2 1 »aid, All your stratagems and confederacies s!:allfail.... | |
 | 1844 - 784 sider
...at home. The water is too shallow for such a bark, the habitation too confined for such a tenant. ' The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.' Mr. Martineau feeds himself full often with the kernels of orthodox ideas, while he throws the shells... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 sider
...specious in appearance, cannot save us. The bed is shorter than that a man can ttrelch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Isai. xxvwi. 20. • II. Consider what are the proper uses of the divine law— The law is good, if... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 sider
...no small part of affliction, but to hear and understand the report of those calamities, XXVIII. 20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. These wicked ones shall have small ease, during the continuance of their lewdness: they shall be as... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 sider
...it shall be no small part of affliction, but to hear and understand the report of those calamities. himself on it ; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. These wicked ones shall have small ease, during the continuance of their lewdness : they shall be as... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 sider
...vexation only to understand the report, or the doctrine reported : For the bed of carnal security, is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it ; and the covering, that is not of God's Spirit, is narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Then what shall be the... | |
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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 
