 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - France - 1816 - 354 pages
...meaning of two texts of Scripture, which are too much neglected ' It is given you to suffer/ and ' Despise not the gift of God/ He, therefore, praises...if he were in the meridian of temporal prosperity. that nothing can be well either added or retrenched from his occupations. " All his pursuits tend to... | |
 | Charles Butler - Philology - 1817 - 616 pages
...of two texts of Scripture, *' which are too much neglected:—' It is given you " to suffer;' and, ' despise not the gift of God!' " He, therefore, praises...a " manner, that nothing can be well either added " to or retrenched from his occupations. " ' All his pursuits tend to the love of God and " man. He... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1821 - 636 pages
...two texts of scripture, " which are too much neglected: — ' It is given you " to suffer ;' and, ' despise not the gift of God !' " He, therefore, praises...filled up in so exact a " manner, that nothing can well be either added " to or retrenched from his occupations. " ' All his pursuits tend to the love... | |
 | 1821 - 788 pages
...of two texts of Scripture, which are too much neglected : — ' It is given you to suffer ;' and ' Despise not the gift of God !' He, therefore, praises...state of mind, even if he were in the meridian of temporalprosperity. " His time is always judiciously and regularly appropriated. His day is filled... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 786 pages
...meaning of two texts of Scripture, which are too much neglected :— ' It is given you to suffer ;' and ' Despise not the gift of God!' He, therefore, praises...state of mind, even if he were in the meridian of ternporul prosperity. " His time is always judiciously and regularly uppropriated. His day is filled... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 546 pages
...of two texts of scripture, " which are too much neglected : — ' It is given you " to suffer;' and, 'Despise not the gift of God!' " He, therefore, praises...mind, even if " he were in the meridian of temporal pros" perity. " ' His time is always judiciously and regularly " appropriated. His day is filled up... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 544 pages
...of two texts of scripture, " which are too much neglected : — ' It is given you " to suffer;' and, 'Despise not the gift of God!' " He, therefore, praises...mind, even if " he were in the meridian of temporal pros" perity. " ' His time is always judiciously and regularly " appropriated. His day is filled up... | |
 | Charles Butler - Church and state - 1822 - 538 pages
...be in a more equable state of mind, even if " he were in the meridian of temporal pros" perity. " ' His time is always judiciously and regularly " appropriated....filled up in so exact a " manner, that nothing can well be either added "to or retrenched from his occupations. " ' All his pursuits tend to the love... | |
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He, therefore, praises GOD for every persecution and humiliation which he endures. He could not be in a more equable state of mind, even if he were in the meridian of temporal prosperity. 