 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 474 pages
...prayer to God; ReVOL, I, P SERMON move far from me vanity and lies. Give mi VIII. . . neither poverty nor riches. Feed me 'with food convenient for me....poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain *. He whose wishes, respecting the possessions of this world, are the most reasonable and bounded,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...than I hat of Agur : " Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty ;ior riches ; iced me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full, and...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Prov. xxx.8, 9. Readfer, are you in the flower of life ? — study to be useful : now you have health,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 488 pages
...wherefore, Better is a little with right, than great revenues without equity. Give me not poverty, nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me,...or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of God in vain. Pr. i. 19. xxiii. 6. xxi. 26. xxiii. 4. xi. 24. xxviii. 8. EC. iv. 8. Pr. xxx. 15. xxvii.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 504 pages
...wherefore, Setter is a little with right, than great revenues without equity. Give me not poverty, nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me,...or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of God in vain. Pr. i. 19. xxiii. 6. xxi. 26. xxiii. 4. xi. 24. xxviii. 8. EC. iv. 8. Pr. xxx. 15. xxvii.... | |
 | Samuel Fothergill - Sermons, English - 1808 - 230 pages
...E2 world : and indeed it feems like the language of one that is entering upon the ftage of life : " Two things have I required of thee, deny me them not...poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me ; left I be full and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord ? or left I be poor, and flea!, and take the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...wanting. Agur's prayer, with the reasons of his wish, are full to this purpose: " Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for me; lest...Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and taker the name of my God in vain." From what hath been said, I shall, in the second place, offer some... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...Agur prayed, " Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient : Jest I be full, and say, Who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Perhaps the middle ranks of society are the least exposed; but they have enough to do t6 keep " a conscience... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 314 pages
...consideration that Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. 'Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them...and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.' I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a play... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 316 pages
...consideration that Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. ' Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them...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 - English essays - 1810 - 314 pages
...consideration that Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. ' Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them...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.'... | |
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Two things have I required 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 thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor... 
