 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820
...to moderate views of human life and human happiness. Remember and admire the wisdom of Agur's wish. Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...riches, feed me with food convenient for me : Lest I befall, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820
...other peculiar to itself, as we learn from that well-conceived prayer of Agur, (Prov. xxx. 8, 9.) " Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither...riches, feed me with food convenient for me : lest 1 be full and deny thee, and say, who is the Lord? or, lest I be poor and steal, and take the name... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820
...all the undoubted articles of temporal felicity. Wise was the man who addressed this prayer to God; Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me withJbod convenient for me. Lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? Or lest I be... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820
...all the undoubted articles ol' temporal felicity. Wise was the man who addressed this prayer to God ; Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty nor ricJies. Feed me with food convenient for me. Lest I be full and deny thee, andM say, who is the Lord... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1821 - 263 pages
...moderate views of human life, and human happiness. Remember, and admire, the wisdom of Agur's petition : " Remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither...riches. Feed me with food convenient for me : lest 1 be full and deny thee , and say, who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal ; and take the name... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821
...heavenly things, and moderate our exorbitant desires for the blessings of the present life. Ver. 8. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me witk food convenient for me. His first petition is for deliverance from sin. Whether he means particularly... | |
 | Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822
...away. Q. 117. What were the two things for which Agur prayed? Proverbs, xxx. 7, 8, A. Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die:...nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me. Q. 118. Doth the word of God enjoin on us never to bear false witness? Exodus, xx. 16. A. Thou shalt... | |
 | William Cobbett - Agriculture - 1822 - 207 pages
...very first duty of every man. " Two things," says AGUR, " have I asked ; deny me them not be" fore I die : remove far from me vanity and lies ; '' give..." food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny " ihee ; or lest I be poor and steal." 19. A good living, therefore, a competence, \a the first thing... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822
...be received with thanksgiving : for it is sanctified by the word of God in prayer. Prov. xxx. 8, 9. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither...with food convenient for me ; lest I be full and deny tt,ee and say, Who is the Lord .' or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Sermons - 1822
...to moderate views of human life and human happiness. Remember and admire the wisdom of Agur's wish. Remove far from me 'vanity and lies. Give me neither...food convenient for me : Lest I be full, and deny tkee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.*... | |
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