 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 546 pages
...continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the nension • list, that are like the lilies of the field — 'they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet are arrayed like Solomon in his glory. In fine, it teacheth a lesson, which, indeed, they might... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...piety from the works and the appearances of nature*. It has the authority of the Sacred Writers upon its side', and even our Saviour himself * . . gives...lilies of the field* : they toil not', neither do they spm' ; yet your heavenly Father careth for lhem*." He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower*,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...cry continually for food. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list, that are like the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet are arrayed like Solomon in his glory. In fine, it teaches a lesson, which indeed they might have learned... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 862 pages
...or wherewithal ye shall be clothed ? Your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.' Is this a dream ? No, indeed ! But such... | |
 | Universalism - 1844 - 712 pages
...he known, is related to have been spoken by Jesus Christ, as a remedy against distrustful care : ' Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." This however is far inferior to the allusions in Job, and in the 19th Psalm; but it is familiar in... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1844 - 478 pages
...he known, is related to have been spoken by Jesus Christ, as a remedy against distrustful care : ' e not fulfilled hefore the eyes of creatures : hut they must he. All This however is far inferior to the allusions in Joh, and in the 19th Psalm; but it is familiar in... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...shall we know what we are to do? The highest voice ever heard on this earth said withal, ' Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin : yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.' A glance, that, into the deepest deep... | |
 | London missionary society - 1867 - 872 pages
...sermon that He who made them preached about them ? " Then the thoughtful child said directly, " Consider the lilies of the field : they toil not, neither do they spin : and yet I say nnto you, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these !" How pleased... | |
 | Theology - 1853 - 624 pages
...of piety from the works and appearances of Nature. It has the authority of the sacred writers upon its side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and solemnity of his example : " Behold the lilies of the field j they toil not, neither do they spin,... | |
 | 1860
...and pure eye dwells upon them with delight. The " fowls of the air," ye are much bet ter than they ! "The lilies of the field," " they toil not, neither do they spin ;" and then, with what an eye for all the beauty of God's universe, — "Solomon, in all his glory,... | |
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Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 
