| Thomas Boston - Salvation - 1787 - 470 pages
...thine " eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make theinfelves " wings j " wings; they flee away, as an eagle towards heaven." Riches and all...worldly things are but a fair nothing ; they are that w'ñch is r.ot. They are not whit thoy fl'cm to be : they are all but gilded vanities, that d?ceive... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 680 pages
...to preserve a sense of it. You had often before read that expostulation, Wilt thousct * Isa. ir. 4. thine eyes upon that which is not ? For riches certainly make themselves wings, and fty away as an eagle towards heaven *. But perhaps you never saw those wings spreading so wide,... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
...before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men. Labour not to be rich : cease, from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...wings ; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye ; neither desire thou his dainty meats : for as... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Labour not to be rich ; cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle toward heaven. For riches are not for ever : and doth the crown endure to every generation ? On Women.... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...cease from thine own wisdom, which man firomfit thee to such a 5 dangerous and destructive conduct. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Solomon, though a rich man, sfieaks of riches in a very contemptuous manner here, a»... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...his dainties : for they are deceitful meat. 4 Labour not to be rich : cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ?...make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward «eaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...by all means, to restrain thy wanton appetite, if thou be a man given to please thy palate. XXIII. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wmgs; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. XXIII. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...23. Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fty upon that which is not ? saith wise Solomon ! Prov. xxiii. 5. for riches certainly make themselves wings : they fly away as an eagle towards heaven : if we have wings of desire to fly after them, they are nimbler of flight to outstrip us ; and leave... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...his dainties : for they are deceitful meat. 4 Labour not to be rich : cease from Ahine own wisdom. 5 man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my vi i ! ; toward heaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him thai hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty... | |
| Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...happiness in so unstable a possession. llo\r strong, as well as how just, the •wise man's expressions ! " Wilt . thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ; for riches certain, ly make to themselves wings, they fly away as an eagle to wards heaven." Behold I preach the... | |
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