...Thou art my servant Israel, for I will be glorious in thee." And yet for all this it followeth. " And I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength in vain, and for nothing. But my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my k haiah, chsp. 49....

...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 noble motives ! God grant,...

...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....

...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...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...

...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...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,...

...whom I will be 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]...

...as short as 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...

...The Lord hath chosen Zion. Ver. 1 6. I will clothe her priests with salvation, Sec. Isa. xlix. 4. 1 said I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength...judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. Jer. xv. 19. Thus saith the Lord, if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my...