 | Thomas Boston - 1799 - 414 pages
...vi. 10, n. "Yet a little fleep, a little flumber, a little folding of the hands to fleep. So fhall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man." That fpiritual fleep and carnal eafe will make way for eyerlafling difquiet and unreft. They wko will... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 606 pages
..." harveft. How long wilt thou fleep, O fiuggard? When " wilt thou arife out of thy fleep ? So flull thy poverty " come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed " man." And again ; " I went by the field of the flothful, " and by the vineyard of the man void of underftanding... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little sleep, a little sfumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold ; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1805 - 332 pages
...broken down. Yet a little fleep, a little flumber, a little folding of the hands to fleep ; fo fir.nl thy poverty come as -one .that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man.' Q. 2. What doth the tighth commandment forhid in the exeefs, in reference iunto our own wtalth and... | |
 | Hector Macneill - 1806 - 418 pages
...JOHN MURRAY, LONDON. 1806. SCOTLAND'S SCAITH; « OB, THE HISTORY OF WILL AND JEAN; OWRB TRUE A TALE ! So shall thy poverty come, as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man. PROV. VOL. II. TO DAVID DOIG, LL.DFSSA MASTER OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, STIRLING. MY DEAR SIR, AFTER having... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 428 pages
...arise out •of tby sleep? Yet a little sleep ; yet a little dumber ; a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth : and thy want as an armed man *. •? • But this is pnly a small part of the evils which persons of this description "brin^b'n... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man. ECCLESIASTES; or, The PREACHER. CHAP. I. 1 The Preacher sheweth that all human courses are vain ; 4... | |
 | Richard Steele - Business ethics - 1807 - 238 pages
...void of understanding. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to fleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ; and thy want as an armed man, Prov. xxiv. S0, 34. " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to-do, do it with thy might; for there is no work,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...any. When once you begin to cry, " A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man," Prov. vi. 10, 11. I had long entertained a desire to live or labour under some family that feared God,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...folding of the hands to sleep,' Prov. vi. 10. For see the effect of such a sluggish delay, ver. 11. * So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.? It is ' To day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart.' If thou delay then till tomorrow, thou... | |
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 
