 | James Ussher - Theology - 1625 - 642 pages
...hatli undertaken to perform; and to remember the saying of the king of Israel unto Benhadad, " Let 1 not him that girdeth on his harness, boast himself, as he that puttcth it off." He hath taken upon him to prove, that our religion cannot be true, because it " disalloweth... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 534 pages
...the people said \ \ an handful for every one. And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell [him,] Let not him that girdeth on [his harness] boast himself as he that putteth it on*. Ahab being encouraged by the zeal and unanimity of his council, sent kirn a "very just re/iroof,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...in their shameful flight : it is well, if they can carry back those skins that they brought thither. Let not him, that girdeth on his harness, boast himself, as he that putteth it off". There is no cause to fear that man, that trusts in himself. Man may cast the dice of war, but the disposition... | |
 | Peter L. Courtier - Christian biography - 1809 - 392 pages
...the righteous can scarcely be saved;' where, if these things be, is the * Sinner Saved' on earth ? Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. JOHN MARTIN. HAVING merely hinted at the circumstances of Mr t Martin's removal from Sheepshead to... | |
 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 422 pages
...SERMON XII. The young warned against the dangers that most easily beset them. 1 Kings, chap. 20, verse \\....Let not him that girdeth on his harness, boast himself as he that taketh it off", 268 SERMON XIII. Funeral sermon on the death of the reverend Mr. Malcomson. Philippians,... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1809 - 414 pages
...scarcely be saved;' where, if these things be, is the ' Sinner Saved' on earth ? Let not him tliat girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. JOHN MARTIN. HAVING merely hinted at the circumstances of Mr ; Martin's removal from Sheepshead to... | |
 | Andrews Norton - American periodicals - 1812 - 490 pages
...To these letters, in allusion to Dr. Horsley's confident manner of writing, he prefixed the motto, " Let not him, that girdeth on his harness, boast himself as he " that putteth it off." Of these letters there appeared a criticism in the Monthly Review for January 1784, which occupies... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 498 pages
...and the success of one day does not always ensure the success of the next. Hence the ancient proverb, Let not him that girdeth on his harness, boast himself as he that puUetk it off, 1 Kings xx. 11. MI. 42 Certainly, my brethren, these leaders of the people of God would... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1817 - 292 pages
...trumpeter was ready to be burnt in the tight of the besieged." Page 155. — As he that puts it of. Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself, as he that puttelh it off. 1 Kings, xx. 11. Page 153. —At when Chederles comes. " A ripa fluminis Halys venimus... | |
 | Miron Winslow - Missions - 1819 - 450 pages
...persevered in the work of the mission, until he supposed he could be no longer useful. At any rate, " let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself, as he that puileth it of» On the other hand, the Board have been blamed for withdrawing their patronage from... | |
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Carson has chosen to disregard the advice of an ancient king: " Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off." Whether he has done wisely in so doing, the result will show. Let us examine his process a little more in... 
