 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...correction : for whom the Lord loveth he correcfceth ; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...heart searching God : and the scorner, 10 who openly makes a jest of sin, [is] an abomination to men. [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small ; if thou sink into despair and melancholy, and art discouraged from thy duty, it shows the mind to... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...revolutions. Yea, to cut it shorter yet, the Scripture calls it a Day of Adversity : Prov. xxiv. 10. If thou faint in the Day of Adversity, thy strength is small : small, indeed, if it cannot weather out one bad day ! and so, likewise, a Night of Weeping : Ps.... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 570 pages
...they would make use of such a discouragement to their advantage, and your power would forsake you : " If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small," saith the wise man, Prov. xxiv. 10, but ยป' watch, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong,"... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 376 pages
...doing, as unto a faithful Creator... (./,) Let not your .heart be troubled, neither let. it be afraid. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. (V) Cast not away your confidence ; but take joyfully the spoiling of your g^ods, know.ing in. yourselves... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1812 - 520 pages
...correction ; for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." " If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small," &c. The virtue of Contentment is strongly recommended in the prayer of Agur : " Give me neither poverty... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 528 pages
...correction; for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." " If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small," &c. The virtue of Contentment is strongly recommended in the prayer of Agur : " Give me neither poverty... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1814 - 520 pages
...him pray : In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, O God, for thou wilt answer me. Fortitude. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Patience. Patient in your tribulation, possess ye your souls, and let patience have her perfect work.... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1815 - 550 pages
...who have weight enough of their own, and their very knowledge and honesty increase their damnation. " If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small," says Solomon, Prov. xxiv. 10. Si desperaveris lassus, says the vulgar Latin; if being weary or faint,... | |
 | 1815 - 586 pages
...mischievous person. 9 The thought of foolishness is sin : and the scorner is an abomination to men. 10 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. 1 1 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain... | |
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