 | John Bickerton Williams - 1830 - 356 pages
..."December 31, 1696. This year is at an end. On the first day of it I preached from Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.' My fathers, where are they 7 And where am I ? Hasting after them. I have lost much... | |
 | Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 366 pages
...near. (Isai. i. 6.) " To day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart." (Psa. xcv. 7, 8.) " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." (Prov. xxvii. 1.) "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation." (2 Cor.... | |
 | Thomas Townson - 1830 - 462 pages
...first day of the new year, preached with good elocution, twentythree minutes, on Proverbs xxvii. 1. " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." A sermon on this text was the first that he preached in Malpas church ; and another... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 580 pages
...Say not to thy neighbour, Go and come again, and to-morrow I will give, when thou hast it by thee." " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth °." Direct, ix. ' Distrust not Gods providence for thy own provision.' An unbelieving... | |
 | Christopher Ralph Muston - 1830 - 458 pages
...scripture, that the tenure by which we hold it is, as uncertain, as it is transient in its duration : " Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." What can be more slight and precarious than the barrier, which interposes between... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 608 pages
...VI. SERMON XV. PROCRASTINATION ; OR THE SIN AND FOLLY OF DEPENDING ON FUTURE TIME. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. THE design of the wise man, in this book of Proverbs is. to give us the precepts of... | |
 | Short memorials - 1830 - 300 pages
...with seven others, their boat upset, and every man perished, almost within sight of their home ! (" Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Prov. xxvii. 1.) His wife went into service, and placed her child under the care... | |
 | John Gregory Pike - 1830 - 380 pages
...be severed off, that piece of cloth, destined to be your shroud." The admonition of the Lord is, " Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth :" Prov. xxvii. 1 . \Vhat is there so firm in youth, in health, or strength, that on... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1831 - 332 pages
...can infallibly tell that his life shall be continued here, even for another day, or another night. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Prov. xxvii. 1.) This night thy soul may be required. (Luke xii. 20.) There are thousands... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pages
...themselves; nevertheless, on New Year's day, 1792, he was able to preach to his people on Prov. xxvii. 1. ' Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what' a day may bring forth1 — a text with which he opened his ministry in that congregation, and with which,... | |
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Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 
