 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...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - Pągina 2491819Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1808 - 448 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 - 1808 - 230 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 314 pągines
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 316 pągines
...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... | |
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