 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 378 pages
...Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient/or me : Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. * — Let rne recommend, II. Moderation in our pursuits. Wishes and desires rest within. If immoderate,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 398 pages
...recorded in the book of Proverbs, to have been the wish and choice of one who was eminent for wisdom. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...convenient for me. l,est I be full, and deny thee, find say. Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, find steal, and take the name of my God in vain.* From... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 370 pages
...to moderate views of human life and human happiness. Remember and admire the wisdom of Agur's wish. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...riches, feed me with food convenient for me : Lest I befall, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 546 pages
...other peculiar to itself, as we learn from that well-conceived prayer of Agur, (Prov. xxx. 8, 9.) " Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither...riches, feed me with food convenient for me : lest 1 be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord? or, lest I be poor and steal, and take the name... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...wisdom of Agur's petition : '' Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor^iches. Feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full...and steal ; and take the name of my God in vain." BLAIR. SECTION XV. Omniscience and omnipresence of the DEITY, the source of consolation to goodmen.... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 pages
...petition of our text. ' Lead me not, O God, into temptation by giving me either poverty or riches ; but feed me with food convenient for me, lest I be full...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' Again ; you are educated for a sedentary and contemplative life. You expect to know little of the manners... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - Society of Friends - 1821 - 470 pages
...lie hath permitted you to move. In you, seems fnlfdled the wish of Agur : "Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me ;...Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and lake the name of my God in vain." (Prov. xxx. 8, 9.) Among your number the society has often found... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 788 pages
...Christianity has fully condemned. If the prayer be a proper one, " Give me neither poverty nor riches, * lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain," — then is that constitution of things the best which docs not expose men to these hurtful extremes,... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...the good of his soul, and only in such a measure as might consist with his best interests. Ver. 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. He prays for daily bread, that he might not be led into temptation ; and for the same reason he prays... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...moderate views of human life, and human happiness. Remember, and admire, the wisdom of Agur's petition : " Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...riches. Feed me with food convenient for me : lest 1 be full and deny thee , and say, who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal ; and take the name... | |
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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... 
