...an eye from which no darkness can conceal and chastising with a thong that no fortitude can endure* The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a. •wounded spirit who can bear. Such, briefly, is man. In providing for whose happiness his entire constitution must be consulted,...

...'This my distressed state of mind brought me down so low, that I was almost worn out with trouble ; " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?" Prov. xviii. 14; and in such a weak and feeble state of body, that I was under the necessity of having...

...HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND," CiC. &C. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENT*. " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" — PROV. xvm. 14. Eonfcon : PRINTED FOR C. BROWN, 18, DCKE STREET, LINCOLN-S INN FIELDS. or A THE...

...bodily pain. He was evidently in the last stage of consumption. Such was only the state of bis body. " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear?" He had, and no one can wonder at it, " a wounded spirit." In him, however, there was a strange combination...

...the spirit that is sick! And oh, how sharper than all external calamity is this disease of the mind! '"The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit — who can bear?" He, who can thus afflict the spirit when the body is in health, and cause it to sutler independently...

...unworthy of the least mercy, that I knew not how to eat. I found that expression of Solomon to be true, " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity : but a wounded spirit who can bear ?" For sure I am that no affliction or pain of body whatever, is to be compared with what I then underwent....

...to drive them away again : aod many of you know by experience the truth of what the Wise Man said; " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear ?" (Prov. xviii.' 14.) The Apostle compares it to the pangs of death : " For I was alive without the...

...intentionally inflicted upon an inoffensive and susceptible heart. The wisest of men has said — " The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit, who can bear." It is not enough that we refrain from speaking evil of our enemies, if we indulge thoughts of enmity...

...« humility. 13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit whp can bear? 15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge ; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge....

...than it really is; but with all the faithfulness of a man who had felt the truth of the proverb, M The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?' We had before seen in MSS. those lines which are to be found at the end of this volume, in which he...