 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 962 pàgines
...from comparing -his fituation with that of perfons above or below him. Agur's prayer is fufficiently noted — " Two things have I required of thee ; deny...convenient for me ; lest I be full and deny thee, and fay, who is the Lord ? or lest 1 be poor, and fttal, and takajhe name of my God in vain."— The middle... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 546 pàgines
...perfons above or below him. Agur's prayer is fuflkiently noted — " Two things have I required of thee j deny me them not before I die : remove far from me,...convenient for me ; lest I be full and deny thee, and fay, who is the Lord ? or lest 1 be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in vain/'— The middle... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pàgines
...prayed,- give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me. Ver. 9. Lest I be rich and deny thee, and say who is the Lord, or lest I...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Gal. vi. 14. Paul aaid, the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. CCXVII. These things... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 318 pàgines
...Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. ' Two things have 1 required of thee; deny me them not before I die. Remove...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' X ,3 I shall fiTl the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - 448 pàgines
...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...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain *. FROM the whole view which we have now taken of the subject, we may, in the first place, learn the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 342 pàgines
...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 not...convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Whp is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' F 3 I shall fill... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - 474 pàgines
...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 - 1808 - 332 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Fothergill - 1808 - 230 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 488 pàgines
...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.... | |
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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... 
