...accents. ' We all do fade аз doth the leaf—Our days are as an hand-breadth, and our years as nothing. There is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it...again, and that the tender branch thereof will not eease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through...

...he cannot pass ; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. For there is hape of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail...

...similitude, Job amplifies and illustrates the truth, that ' The days of man are determined,' &c. " Verse 7. ' There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.' " This may be viewed as an argument to move the Lord to spare Job ; though he had beaten off his leaves,...

...may stick upon the ground again, but they will never take root.' Foolish man ! Did he not know that there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease:' and' that through the scent in water it will" bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.' " " I think,"...

...and his sunbeams remember the broken tree thou leavest behind thee. Saith not his holy word " that there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease ?" Thus may it be with our people—with our Church. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,...

...period of his life, which thou hast allotted him, as a man appoints a set time to a hired servant. " For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again ;" but man, though a far nobler creature, is apparently in a worse condition, for when once he loseth...

...yes—" there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, and the root thereof wax old in the earth, yet by the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant." Job xiv. 8, 9. This poor declining soul, as sad as it sits nt the giites of bell, niny rouse opitstJf...

...these, however, has come so near it as a poet who wrote long before the time of Moschus; the author of the book of Job. " For there is hope of a tree, if...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease; but man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? He lieth down, and...

...the perplexed state of the mind,when pondering over thisdeeply interesting subject. " For there is a hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through...

...his bounds that he cauuot pass; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout a^aio, and that the tender branch there of will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man...