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. The Nineteenth Century - Page 2951897Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...require^ And belter things than those which we desire. Dryd. Palnm. St Arc. 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. Agur's Prayer. Prov. ch. xxj, v. 8, 9. INTRODUCTION. PERMIT me, Stanhope ', as I form'd thy youth To... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for roe ; lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." £ shall fill the remaining part of- my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a... | |
| Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. f Prov. xxx. 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. ^ Mai. i. 6. A son honouretb his father, and a servant his master : if then I be a father, where is... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...prayer unto God, " Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me ; Jest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Wretched man ! tp what purpose dost thou labour so carefully to gather up riches for thy children ?... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 314 pages
...me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thce, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor 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 - 648 pages
...me neither poverty nor riches; feed ma with food convenient for me : Lest I be full and deny thce, and say, Who is the Lord ? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Agur's Prayer. Prov, cb. xxx, v. 81 9. INTRODUCTION. PERMIT me, Stanhope', as I form'd thy youth To... | |
| Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - 1810 - 458 pages
...part of his memorable prayer, that he might be kept as well from the evils of poverty, as of riches, " lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." But seperate from these, which are the greater evils of such a state, the slights, grudging and insults... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 316 pages
...feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be 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 my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a play... | |
| William Giles - 1811 - 268 pages
...to envy, falser hood, dishonesty, perjury. Let us therefore say with Agur, Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. But even those christians, Philetus, who move in this middle sphere, are not exempt from the calamities... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...Agur found, and therefore prayed to be led between the two extremes; — " 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," Prov. xxx. 8, 9. I had very sharp work to settle these matters with my conscience; it cost me many... | |
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