| James Burroughs - 1733 - 296 pages
...refine and elevate the foul, but never to wafte and confume the body. 'Tis a precept of fcripture ; Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. If we muft do nothing but pray ; what room would there be for reading the fcriptures, for meditation,... | |
| James Hervey - 1767 - 464 pages
...would I venture to addrefs You, in the elegant and chearing Language of the royal PREACHER; Go thy Way, eat thy Bread with Joy, and drink thy Wine with a merry Heart; for GOD now accepteth § both thy Perfon, and thy Performances. But, * z Cor. viii. 12. •{•... | |
| 1788 - 598 pages
...neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the fun. 7 fl Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart:, for God now accepteth thy works. . ;,.;,. -;_ .- / ;_ ,. 8 Let thy garments be always whjfej.and... | |
| Benjamin Jenks - 1793 - 496 pages
...down ? when I can but be fo happy to keep in with him ; I will fay to myfelf, (as Ecclef. ix. 8.) " Eat thy bread with joy, and " drink thy wine with a merry heart, for now God " accepts thy works." And when the Spirit's oil of gladnefs is poured into my foul,... | |
| John Willison - 1798 - 644 pages
...thee, which may make them fweet to thy tafte: That word inEccl. ix. 7. belongs to thee, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works." Every morfel of bread thou eateft comes from thy Father's... | |
| 1803 - 498 pages
...goods of life and be happy all his days. Such among others are the words which follow. " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white, and let thy head lack no... | |
| Joseph Benson - 1802 - 382 pages
...for a man, in the days of his life which God givetli him under the <un. Go thy way then, (fays he,) eat thy bread •with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heatt; let thy garments be always white, and let thy head lack no ointment. Live joyfully with the... | |
| William Mason - 1803 - 400 pages
...saith the Psalmist, " Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all ages ;" " and I in him," by sweet manifestation, knowledge and comfort, by faith. Inestimable...thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. ".—Eccl.ix.7. These things have I written unto you, that believe on the name of the Son of... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 pages
...under the sun ; for it is his portion, and a heart to rejoice in it is the gift of God^. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart : Let thy garments be alteays white} and thine head lack no ointment^. And once more, I recommend... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...done under the sun ; no one seeks their favour, or fears their displeasure : there* 7 fore Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works : as fur as this mortal life is in question, instead of indulging... | |
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