 Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die. Remove far from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - الصفحة 2491819عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Familiar and explanatory address - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...to forget God, according to Agar, in his prayer. — (Proverln, 30, v. 8, 9.) " Remove me far from vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor riches...poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Vanity is a very great temptation, and, with conceit and pride, destroys thousands. God sometimes suffers... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...considereth uot that poverty shall come upon him. — Prov. xxviii. 11. 20. 22. Give me neither poverty nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me ;...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. — Prov. xxx. 8, 9. Gen. xxviii. 20. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, &c. And I gave my heart to... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...delighted. Be ye then like the righteous Agur, Who prayed thus, Prov. xxx. 8 & 9, Give me neither poverty nor . riches ; feed me with food convenient for me...^ and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Also, follow the exampie of the indefatigable and praise-worthy Paul, who, in whatsoever state he was... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. — Prov. xxviii. 11; 20. 22. Give me neither poverty nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me ;...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. — Prov. xxx. 8, 9. Gen. xxviii. 20. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, &c. And I gave my heart to... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...himself and family, is the -very Jirtt duty of every man. " Two things," says AGUE, have I asked ; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me...convenient for me ; lest I be full and deny thee; or les>t I be poor and steal." 19. A good living, therefore, a competence, is the first thing to be... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...and lies,"— every thing pernicious to the purity and safety of his soul;—"give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me, lest...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain!" To think .that this prayer is not suited to your condition, is self-delusion: to use the prayer while... | |
 | Samuel Saunders (Baptist minister.) - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...The petition of pious Agur admirably exhibits the spirit of our text; — "Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me,...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain !" Both wealth and poverty expose to peculiar dangers. The former tends to pride, sensuality, and forgetfulness... | |
 | John Hewlett - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...humility of Agur's prayer, " Give me," said he, in his petition to the Almighty, " neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me,...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." But the most desirable state, in" this world, we know, is a state of warfare, requiring of -rijmij!... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...pray ; in the spirit which Agur, in the prayer just mentioned, expresses, " Give me neither po" verty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient " for me....be poor and steal, " and take the name of my God in vain."6 For, indeed, though the temptations of extreme poverty are very great, yet, the tendency of... | |
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