An Enquiry After Happiness: In Three Parts ..., 1–2. köide

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R. Gosling, W. Innys, R. Manby, and T. Longman, 1734

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Page 188 - Length of days is in her right hand : and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Page 63 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 166 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.
Page 116 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Page 145 - But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; and if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant...
Page 173 - Ye fee your calling, brethren, how that not many wife men after the fleJh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called...
Page 71 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not...
Page 11 - Again, the sound of these things doth not so pass the ears of them that are most loose and dissolute in life, but it causeth them one time or other to wish, " O that I might die the death of the righteous, and that my end might be like his!
Page 189 - Now the God of hope fill you with joy and peace in believing, and make you abound in hope through the power of the Holy Oho ft, Rom.
Page 160 - God of things not feen as yet ;" being wary, " by faith prepared an ark, to the faving of his " houfe; by the which he condemned the world, and " became heir of the righteoufnefs which is by faith.

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