| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 páginas
...instruction to a wise man, and he will yet be wiser ; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools. Ecclesiasticus. The discourse of a godly man is always with "wisdom; but a fool changeth as the moon.... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 páginas
...the way : but wickedness overthroweth the 7 sinner, though he foolishly seeks establishment by it. There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing...that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches. This is applicable to the figure persons make in the world ; therefore toe have need of prudence in... | |
| John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 páginas
...scattereth, yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty :" " There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing:...that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." Then Samuel whispered to Christiana, his mother, and said, Mother, this is a very good man's house,... | |
| Erasmus Middleton - 1807 - 672 páginas
...he opened the Bibie, and said something in a very crude and unconnected way, on Proverbs iii. 35. " The wise shall inherit glory ; but shame shall be the promotion of fools." The friends present expressed much kindness and pressed him to attend again. From that evening, he... | |
| 1807 - 570 páginas
...habitation of the just. 34 Surely he scoraeth the scorners : but he giveth grace unto the lowly. • 35 Tn> wise shall inherit glory : but shame shall be the promotion of fools. CHAP. IV. 1 Solomon, to persuade obedience, 3 s/iewetlt, rthat instruction /ie had of /its parents,... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 562 páginas
...THAT, which wise Solomon observed in the temporal estates of men, holds no less true in the spiritual: There is, that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing...is, that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches ; Prov. xiii. 1. Оn the one side, we meet with a proud, but beggarly Laodicean, that says, / am rich,... | |
| Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 428 páginas
...which will one day find them out to their eternal confusion. In another place he assures us that " the wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools." By the wise, such are intended who are wise unto salvation ; they shall inherit that glory which God... | |
| 1809 - 556 páginas
...(who bear even their insolent scoffs patiently), to be had in honour, and highly esteemed. Ver. 35. The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools. ~] They may be despised and debased for a time, but in the issue they shall be accounted the only wise... | |
| 1809 - 1150 páginas
...of the just. * 34 It Surely he scorneth the scorners : but he givcth grace unto the lowly. 35 1 ne looked toward Sodom : and Abraham went with them to bring them on th CHAP. IV. I Solomon, to fiersuade to obedience, 3 sheiaeth tu/iat instruction he had 'jfhi» parents,... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 páginas
...sinner as he has dealt with God. " Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools." And as, in this world, those that despise Christ shall be lightly esteemed, so these scorners, at the... | |
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