...inconceivable distance there is between God and man, that it is wonderful God will spend a thought upon us. " Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him...of him ? Man is like to vanity, his days are as a shaT dow that passeth away." Psal. 144. His being in this world hath nothing firm, or solid ; it is...

...high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust ; who subdueth my people under me. 3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him...or the son of man, that thou makest account of him ! 4 Man is like to vanity : his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD,...

...us low is sons of Adam : evidently meaning men of obscure birth and low rank, or mean condition. " Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him ? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him? ' Ps. cxliv. 3. Where the Psalmist intends to represent the human...

...pursues it; and the Psalmist, speaking of man in general, says, Lord, what is man, that than lakest knowledge of him; or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? Psal. civ. 3. And elsewhere it is said, What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, and that thou...

...trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not. Man is like to vanity ; his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Man g,oeth to his long home, and the mourners go...

...might be seen of all to whom he was preaching. Psalm cxliv. 3, 4. Lord, what is man that thou taktst knowledge of him, or the son of man, that thou makest...vanity; his days are as a shadow, that passeth away. In his sermon he had an eminent assistance from GOD, and delivered his matter with a strong and a clear...

...celebration of the Lord's Supper; which he consenting to do, chose for his text Psalm Psalm cxliv. S, 4. Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him, or the son oj man, that thou makest account of him ? Man is like to vanity ; his days are of a shadow, that passeth...

...heavens are not clean, and whose angels he chargeth with folly." Well may we exclaim with the Psalmist, " Lord, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him,...or the son of man that thou makest account of him?" and with the beloved disciple, " Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that...

...is man, that thou takest knoicledge of him ? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him ? 4. Man is like to vanity : his days are as a shadow that passeth away. After a thanksgiving for the works which Jehovah had wrought, followeth a reflection on the creature...

..."fiourisheth. For the -wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more. Man is like to vanity ; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.* His woes are 'delineated with the pen of sorrow. In Zion's elegiac lines, flow such tears of affliction...