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" Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wines and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : let us crown ourselves with... "
The Meditations of a Recluse: Chiefly on Religious Subjects - Page 44
by John Brewster - 1802
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Evening Exercises for the Closet: For Every Day in the Year

William Jay - 1864 - 703 pages
...sentiment at the period it was written : " For our time is a very shadow that passeth away : and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man come th again Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily...
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Memories of Merton

John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 pages
...and overcome with the heat thercof. For our time is a very shadow that passeth away ; and after our end there is no returning : for it is fast sealed,...things that are present : and let us speedily use the ereatures like as in yonth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower...
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Thirteen sermons from the Quaresimale of Q. Rossi, tr., ed. by J.M. Ashley

Quirico Rossi - 1868 - 282 pages
...length shaken off the paternal subjection, with eagerness invite each other to take pleasure : " Come therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth." (Wisd. ii. 6.) Intolerance of restraint, and love of liberty, these are the sad presages...
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Gisa, the forest maiden, by the author of 'Olive, the teacher'.

Gisa (fict. name.) - 1868 - 188 pages
...— Our life is short and tedious, neither is there any man known to have returned from the grave : come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present — let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of the spring pass by us...
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Paradise of the Christian soul, enriched with choicest delights of varied ...

Jacobus Merlo (Horstius.) - 1869 - 674 pages
...point to die ? MAN. This is to many a hard saying, O LORD ; they cannot bear it. So they say, Come on, let us enjoy the good things that are present, and...speedily use the creatures like as in youth ; let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered....
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Hours of Christian devotion tr. [by H. Dunn] with a preface by H. Bonar

Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1870 - 340 pages
...it becomes a serpent. Death maketh pale : well, then, " let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." "Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things...speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered."1 But the question presents itself, What is...
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The Proper Psalms, and Lessons Proper for Sundays and Holy Days, Together ...

1871 - 966 pages
...and overcome with the heat thereof. 'For our time is a very shadow that passeth away ; and after our ad again by weight : and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. "i And if ye will 4 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures...
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The Christian Æsop: ancient fables teaching eternal truths

William Henry Anderdon - 1871 - 320 pages
...James iv. 4). — ' They have said, reasoning with themselves, but not right, . . . Come, . . . and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures, as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments : and let not the flower of the...
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Life lectures, by the author of 'Alpha': lectures on the religion of life ...

Edward Nichols Dennys - 1871 - 494 pages
...that is driven away with the beams of the morning sun, and overcome with the noon-day heat thereof. Come on, therefore ; let us enjoy the good things that are present : let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and let no flower of the Spring pass by us. Let us crown...
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Proper Psalms and Lessons, According to the Use of the Church of England

1872 - 964 pages
...and overcome with the heat thereof, s For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our to betray him. '? Now 6 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures...
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