 | Money - 1799 - 208 pages
...to this rule ! The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. We perform but a humble part in the economy of life. It is ours to seize the opportunity, but who gives... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...and maketh alive ; and, like an universal arbiter, disposeth of all events : " For the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole " disposing thereof is of the Lord." It is, therefore, wilful blindness alone, that can make any man deny the Providence of God, which so... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...with respect to the acquisition of earthly good things. In regard even to these, " The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ; neither yet bread to the wise, nor riches... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1804 - 520 pages
...who should fight with Hector. The same is very exactly expressed in Scripture : [e] The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Homer describes this watchful care of Providence over mankind in an admirable manner, by the ingenious... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...the objects of /lily to all -who read their hit" 33 tory ; as Alexander, and ct'iere. The lot is cast into the lap: but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD ; hi» firovidcnce determines the most casual events, therefore we should be reconciled to our condition,... | |
 | Samuel Barnard - 1806 - 352 pages
...Christ, for more submission to, or gratitude for our appointed lot.. " The lot, (says Solomon) is cast into the lap; " but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord," Prov. xvi. 33. Now we are passive in the reception of blessings seeing they are cast into the lap,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...better than the mighty ; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taktth a city. 33 The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. CHAP. XVII. T5ETTER is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sarrilit es xith... | |
 | 1808 - 604 pages
...providence of God in the circumstances of the life and death of all his creatures. " The lot is cast into the lap : but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." The providence of God towards Jacob, is a comment upon this and similar declarations of his word. That... | |
 | James Hare - 1809 - 474 pages
...the south ; but God is the " Judge; he putteth down one, and setteth " up another. The lot is cast into the lap, " but the whole disposing thereof is of the " Lord, in whose hand our breath is, and " whose are all our ways." Agreeably likewise both to the letter and... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...better than the mighty ; and he that ruleth liis spirit, than he that taketh a city. 33 The lot is cast li, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there. CHAP. XVII. BETTER 1.9 a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house lull of sacrifices with... | |
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The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD. 
