 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 sider
...answerable for our success. If we lose our labour, we shall not lose our reward. A greater than all 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." SEPT. 8. — " Despisest... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1830 - 588 sider
...that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase." The apostles preached to the Jews, yet the body of that people remained in infidelity: " Who hath believed our report?" Yea, Christ himself, who spoke as never man spoke, saith, concerning... | |
 | 1831 - 456 sider
...ministrations should be accompanied with few apparent tokens ef success, so that he is ready to exclaim, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought," yet he will remember that (while there may be success unknown to him) success is not his work, nor... | |
 | William Hales - 1830 - 1222 sider
...the MESSIAH'S despondency on this account, and his FATHER'S encouragement. XL1X. 4. " Then I laid, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, even for vanity : Nevertheless, my catae is with THE LORD, And my work \s with MT GOD." 5. " And now,... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 sider
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 982 sider
...complain unto his Father, and lament before him, over the bad success of his undertaking : " Then I said, HILDREN. But Jerusalem which is above is and in vain : yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God" (ver. 4); clearly proving,... | |
 | David Cranz, Religious Tract and Book Society for Ireland - 1831 - 318 sider
...hard, and seemingly, fruitless labour. He preached his farewell sermon on 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," After the sermon,... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
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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. 
