Bible Truths with Shakespearean Parallels; Being Selections from Scripture, Moral, Doctrinal, and Preceptial, with Passages Illustrative of the Text, (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... to now, ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.--Jas. iv. 13,14. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.1--Prov. xxvii. 1. Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. Jer. xiii. 16. The night conieth when no man can work. John ix. 4. "When the day serves before black-corner'd night, Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. Timon Op Athens. Act v. Scene 1. Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals ere we can effect them. All's Well That Ends Well. Act v. Scene 3. 1 Is. lvi. 12; Luke xii. 19-21. We must take the current while it serves. Julius Caesar. Act iv. Scene 3. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace, from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Macbeth. Act v. Scene 5. Take all the swift advantage of the hours. King Richard III. Act iv. Scene 1. The time is worth the use on't. Winter's Tale. Act in. Scene 1. What we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. Hamlet. Act iv. Scene 7. The flighty purpose never ia...