 | William Melmoth - 1787 - 166 pages
...Gain thereof than fine Gold. She is more precious than Rubies, and all the Things t/foit can/} de/ire are not to be compared unto her. Length of Days is...Her Ways are Ways of Pleafantnefs, and all her Paths art Peace. This Wifdom and Underftanding, which he recommends, as ar Treafure of fo great Value, »... | |
 | Thomas Francklin - Sermons, English - 1787 - 404 pages
...•wounded fpirit who can bear? p. 1 2 5 SERMON VIII. On the Pleafantnefs of Religion. Prov. III. 17. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace. . p. 147 SERMON IX. • On the Poor in Spirit. Matth. V. 3. JZlejfcd are the poor in fpirit, for theirs... | |
 | John Jebb, John Disney - Theology - 1787 - 612 pages
...choice/I bleflings of the Almighty upon man, and arms our fouls with patience, faith, arid holy hope. " Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace." But in order that we may place in the moft ftriking point of view, the neceflity of fuch an inflitution,... | |
 | Jonathan Richardson - Engraving - 1792 - 334 pages
...moralifts have been injurious to virtue, when they have given us fuch harfh reprefentations of her. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace. It is in every man's power to feed as delicioufly as Lucullus : nature is not only contented with a... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Religious poetry - 1793 - 384 pages
...raifed us up top'-'her, and made us fit together in heavenly places in Chri/l Jefus. a Prov. iii- ' 7. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace. b Pfalm cxx. ;. Wo is me that I fojourn in Mefeck, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar. c Phil. iii.... | |
 | John Disney - Sermons, English - 1793 - 516 pages
...religion, prefuming that it is infeparably united with virtue, that it will apply to nothing elfe ; " her ways are ways " of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are " peace." The very means are delightful, the end is truly glorious; fhe converts the, bitter potions of life... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 676 pages
...fubfequcnt line, and by the fcriptural expreffion which our author probably had in his thoughts : " Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace." MALoNE. And by thofe claim their greatnefs, not by blood. [Nor fhall this peace fleep with her : *... | |
 | George Horne - Sermons, English - 1794 - 460 pages
...getteth underftanding. For the merchandife of it is better than the merchandife of ill- • / ver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious....compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches vand honour. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths... | |
 | Catherine D'Oyly - 1794 - 748 pages
...were inflifting torments on themfelves. Of the religion of our blefled Lord, it may be truly faid, " Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and " all her paths are peace." Our Saviour, who knew every thought of the human heart, judged fuch feafons to be particularly proper... | |
 | Henry Francis Offley - 1795 - 70 pages
...to the teftimonies of the Lord, and cleave unto wifdom, for *' length of days are in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honour ; her ways...ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace." HENRY FRANCIS OFFLEY. March 24, 1795. RICHARD BROTHERS, NEltHEt A MADMAN nor an IMPOSTOR; WITH A FEW... | |
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire... 
