| Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1810 - 242 pages
...for ourselves, every wise man would say with Agur in the book of Proverbs,* " Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest...poor^ and steal, and take the name of my GOD in vain." But He, who best knows what is fit for us, has not left us this choice. He has * Proverbs xxx. 8, 9.... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for roe ; lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." £ shall fill the remaining part of- my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a... | |
| Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. f Prov. xxx. 9. Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. ^ Mai. i. 6. A son honouretb his father, and a servant his master : if then I be a father, where is... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...prayer unto God, " Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me ; Jest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Wretched man ! tp what purpose dost thou labour so carefully to gather up riches for thy children ?... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 316 pages
...thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me :...full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or Jest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' I shall fill the remaining part of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...me neither poverty nor riches; feed ma with food convenient for me : Lest I be full and deny thce, and say, Who is the Lord ? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Agur's Prayer. Prov, cb. xxx, v. 81 9. INTRODUCTION. PERMIT me, Stanhope', as I form'd thy youth To... | |
| Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - 1810 - 458 pages
...part of his memorable prayer, that he might be kept as well from the evils of poverty, as of riches, " lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." But seperate from these, which are the greater evils of such a state, the slights, grudging and insults... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 314 pages
...of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thce, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.'... | |
| William Cobbett - 1810 - 700 pages
...feecleth us with plentcousness. Protect and cover us, we pray Thee, from the abuses of each ; lest we be full, and deny Thee, and say, who is the Lord; or lest we be poor and steal, and take the Name of o.ur God in vain. More especially at this lime dispose us... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...admire, the wisdom of Agur's petition: " Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor "riches. Feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be fullr and deny thee ; and say, who is the Lord ? or lest I be potiiy and steal ; am1 take the name... | |
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