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...have not already done so, we shall ere long he joining in the mournful lamentation of the spouse, " They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." There are many reasons, aside from the tendency of the age, why the cultivation of the heart is neglected.... | |
 | 1858
...the whole soul in promoting the salvation of others, as afterwards to call forth the lamentation, " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." How many readers of "The Church" are constant hearers of the gospel, but hearers only ! Oh, that casting... | |
 | David Everard Ford - 1844 - 134 Seiten
...successful effort, for the benefit of others, may be followed by the lamentation — "They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept," Cant. i. 6. The danger becomes yet greater, as the object of pursuit diverges from religion. And Christians... | |
 | 1844 - 504 Seiten
...approach of all marauders. In the beautiful Song of Solomon, the spouse is heard to say — " They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." A recent traveller observes, " that, in the route between Jerusalem and the convent of St. Elias, he... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1844 - 390 Seiten
...neglecting their own. Many a minister has had occasion to lament, in bitterness of spirit, " They made me a keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept." The duties which ministers owe themselves may be considered under two divisions; the one relating to... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 542 Seiten
...scrip- ' ture presented themselves. burdened with I deep and poignant reproof, such as " They j made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept;" so that although the service was got through with tolerably well, I felt that I, at any rate, hnd |... | |
 | 1845 - 702 Seiten
...of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath aid, 1 will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ; in sorr nie the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7 Tell me, О thou whom my... | |
 | 1845 - 582 Seiten
...and uncultivated, may fall into a state of the deepest and most painful declension. " They made me keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." It is, then, the humble design of the writer in the present work, for a while to withdraw the mind... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 Seiten
...our thoughts and discourses. 6 Look not upon me, because I am AM 2990. black, because the sun hath 7 T Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 506 Seiten
...WW STATHAM.* *' Where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?" — Jer. xiii. 20. " They made me the keeper of the vineyards ; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." — Cant. i. 6. • T DO not think that there can ever be quite an epic unity in all our services ;... | |
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Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 
