 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 526 pagina’s
...Remember and admire the wisdom of Agur's wish. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for me :...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. * — Let me recommend, II. MODERATION in our pursuits. Wishes and desires rest within. If immoderate,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pagina’s
...prayer to God; Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me withJbod convenient for me. Lest I be full and deny thee, and...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, is... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 378 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 pagina’s
...vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me : lest 1 be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord? or,...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Besides, in the ordinary course of events, • all that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 370 pagina’s
...and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me : Lest I befall, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. * — Let me recommend, II. Moderation in our pursuits. Wishes and desires rest within. If immoderate,... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1821 - 470 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 786 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. 
