 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...done ; 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...judgment is with, the LORD, and my work with my God. XLIX. 5 Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1808 - 360 pages
...thou hast laboured, — so laboured as to spend thy strength in that service, thou must add with him, Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 4. The last duty recommendable to these ambassadors, is Magnanimity, which is no les needful than the... | |
 | Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 104 pages
...occur. We know that our Great Master is represented as saying : — " I have laboured in vain, and spent My strength for nought and in vain ; yet surely...judgment is with the LORD, and My work with My GOD." If any are honoured in rescuing one Lyddy from an evil life, let them bless GOD and take courage. But... | |
 | John Wesley - 1810 - 452 pages
...heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye — Acts vii. 51. " I have laboured in vain : I have spent my strength...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God — Isaiah xlix. 4." But that generation, which was abandoned to all wickedness, is gone ; so are most... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 516 pages
...Prophet, " All the Day long have I stretched out my Hands Unto a disobedient and gain-saying People : Yet surely my Judgment is with the Lord, And my Work with my God." ADVICE TO THE PEOPLE CALLED METHODISTS, WITH REGARD TO DRESS. 1. 1. I Am not fond of saying the same... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pages
...servants, Isa. xlix. 4 ; I have laboured in vain, (says he), I have spent my strength for nought j yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.' 3. It cannot be altogether in vain in respect of honesthearted hearers, Micah. ii. 7. * Do not my words... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1813 - 626 pages
...hath he hid me. And said unto me, thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now saith the Lord, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 468 pages
...lips, O Lord, thou knowest. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord," Ps. xl. 9. 11. " I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ;...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God," Isa. xlix. 4. O ! may God animate us with more noble motives! God grant, not that the eternal misery... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 520 pages
...conscience, we must learn to say with the prophet, or rather with Jesus Christ, "I have laboured " in vain, 1 have spent my strength for nought, and "in vain: yet...judgment is with the Lord, "and my work with my God," Isa. xlix. 4. We must content ourselves with this thought, if our hearers have not been sanctified,... | |
 | Joseph Sutcliffe - 1814 - 206 pages
...the womb, from the bowels of my moth* cr hath he made mention of my name. Then I said, i have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb, to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, though... | |
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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. 
