The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow: SermonsA. J. Valpy, 1831 |
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... labor doth greatly please a poor man with a very solid pleasure : but a rich man hath nothing to please him , but a new toy , a puff of applause , success at a horse - race , at bowls , at hunting ; in some petty sport and pastime ...
... labor doth greatly please a poor man with a very solid pleasure : but a rich man hath nothing to please him , but a new toy , a puff of applause , success at a horse - race , at bowls , at hunting ; in some petty sport and pastime ...
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... labor to amplify their estate : we should rather endure any inconvenience or distress , than have recourse to ways of evading them disallowed by God ; doing as the Jews did , who in their straits , against the declared pleasure of God ...
... labor to amplify their estate : we should rather endure any inconvenience or distress , than have recourse to ways of evading them disallowed by God ; doing as the Jews did , who in their straits , against the declared pleasure of God ...
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... labor in planting , but cannot brook the fruit of our doings ; ' we , like prodigals , fling away our estate in wanton profusions , then complain of want ; we affect and choose the causes , but loathe , and cannot abide the certain ...
... labor in planting , but cannot brook the fruit of our doings ; ' we , like prodigals , fling away our estate in wanton profusions , then complain of want ; we affect and choose the causes , but loathe , and cannot abide the certain ...
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... labor for it , who spend all their time , and em- ploy all their care about it ; and is it not fit they should have it ? Is it not a pity they should miss it ? Is it not natural that they who sow to the flesh , should reap from the ...
... labor for it , who spend all their time , and em- ploy all their care about it ; and is it not fit they should have it ? Is it not a pity they should miss it ? Is it not natural that they who sow to the flesh , should reap from the ...
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Isaac Barrow Thomas Smart Hughes. content see them to enjoy the fruits of their labor and hazard : be thou satisfied with the consequences of thy virtuous resolu- tions and proceedings : if it be worth thy while to live inno- cently ...
Isaac Barrow Thomas Smart Hughes. content see them to enjoy the fruits of their labor and hazard : be thou satisfied with the consequences of thy virtuous resolu- tions and proceedings : if it be worth thy while to live inno- cently ...
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Page 202 - They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 15 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 481 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 201 - Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Page 276 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 83 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 377 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 82 - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Page 474 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 283 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.