 | Henry Venn - 1811 - 464 pages
...his eye-lids try the children of men. The Lord is a God of knowledge ; by him actions are weighed. 1 the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to...his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." Jer. xvii. 10. And lest a conclusion should be drawn from the troubles and afflictions of the righteous,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...truth, law, justice, and equity ; and would reduce a family to poverty for a little ill-gotten wealth. " He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave...midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." If your conscience be clear of these things, you needed not have brought them forth ; and, if guilty,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pages
...to it that it leaves him, and often hurries him away from it. That is a heavy word, Jer. xvii. 11; 'He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave...midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.' 6. It leaves a sting in the conscience, which will be felt to smart sooner or later. Conscience is... | |
 | John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...not he know it ? And shatl not he render to every man according to his works ?" Jeremiah xvii. 10, "I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even...his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." Chapter xxxii. 19, " Great in counsel and mighty in work : for thine eyes arc open upon all the ways... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...9, 10. The heart is deceitful above all things^, and desperately •wicked ; ivho can knov> it ? / the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to...his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Here the Lord teach^th thtse two things : 1. That the fountain of all our miscarriage, and actual sinning... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pages
...heart was only evil continually. Gen. 6. 5. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I the Lord search the heart,...his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jet: 17.9, 10. Wo unto the wicked ! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...Sacred Scriptures. Thus, we are told in Jeremiah, that " as the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcbeth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right,...midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." The signs of the times, however, as we before remarked, indicate a new order of things. Men are beginning... | |
 | 1815 - 586 pages
...reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. 1 1 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them...midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 12 A glorious high throne from the beginning it the place of our sanctuary. 13 O LORD, the hope of... | |
 | 1815 - 286 pages
...flesh reap corruption : but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins even...his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. God hath appointed a day in which... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 544 pages
...beginning, and death in the issue, must have shame in the middle." Jer. 17. 11. The prophet tells us, " He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave...midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." He was a fool all along in his deceiving of others, though reputed worldly wise; but in the issue,... | |
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. 
