...Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, C I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain : Yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, And my work with my God. And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the...

...refrained my lips; 0 Lord, thou With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me O Lord, Psal. xl. 9, 11. I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, find my'work with my God, Isa. xlix. 4. O ! may God animate us with more...

...and that prophecy represented him as lamenting the unsuccessfulness of his preaching, and saying, " I have laboured in vain ; I have " spent my strength for nought, and in vain." It is well known to you, that the apostles, notwithstanding that thousands were sometimes converted...

...sustain, yet, each as he falls, must feel the melancholy and not altogether groundless conviction, " I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and in vain," since little will or can be done in comparison to what mightbe effected, if the labour were duly apportioned....

...Then I faid, I have laboured in vain, I have fpent my ftrength for nought and in vain ; yet furely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work with my God." — But here fome who are under difficulties may propofe this ^ueftion, How mall a perfon manage this...

...lips; O Lord, thou knowest. With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord, Psal. xl. 9,1.1. I have spent my strength for nought and in vain; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God, Isa. xlix. 4. O ! may God animate us with more...

...good conscience, we must learn to say with the prophet, or rather with Jesus Christ, / have labored 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, Isa. xlix. 4. We must content ourselves with this...

...glorified, in vihom Israel shall be glorified ; or, I will bf 4 glorified in Israel.* Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain ; / have been rejected by the Jetos, and few of them have believed : [yet] surely my judgment [is]...

...possible, I shall refer only to one text more, as speaking doctrinally on the point. " Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in rain ; yet surely my judgment « with the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, sarth the Lord that...

...the scripture might be fulfilled," John xvii. 12. But O how depressing to reflect, " I have labored in vain ; I have spent my strength for nought and in vain,'' Isai. xlix. 4, to look back upon a ministry, not the " savour of life unto life, but of death unto...