 | John Leland - 1769 - 470 sider
...Piety and Virtue recommended, as the bigbejl Pleafure and Delight. DISCOURSE XVIII. PROVERBS iii. i7. Her Ways are Ways of Pleafantnefs and all her Paths are Peace. OU R Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath inftructed us to form the jufteft Notions of Religion, hath obferved... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 556 sider
...A. That religion is no melancholy thing, but the fountain of all joy and pleafure ; Prov. iii. 17. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace. Of the Increaje of Grace. Queft. i. | "VOth all true grace increafe and grow ? JL/ A. Yes, it doth,... | |
 | 1772 - 412 sider
...this life, is appparent from what follows a little after: " Length of days is in her right hand, " and in her left hand riches and honour: her ways are " ways of pleafautnefs, and all her paths are peace : She is "a tree " a tree of life to thofe that lay hold... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1773 - 630 sider
...3. Moft groundlefs is the prejudice againft religion, that it is a melancholy thing, Prov. iii. i7. Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace. None have fuch reafon to rejoice as the believer has. If the poor wretched and condemned creature has... | |
 | Charles Jenner - 1776 - 292 sider
...O my deareft friend, can any one fee thefe effe&s of virtue, and not cry out with the wife man,. " Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace." Adieu, my Henry, a few days will, I truft, increafe the happinefs of us all. *. ALTAMONT. FINI S. *,... | |
 | John Logan - 1781 - 138 sider
...crown of glory fhe beflows Upon the hoary head. According as her labours rife, So her rewards increafe, Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, And all her paths are peace. HYMN V, EH OLD ! the mountain of the Lord a, ff In latter days fhall rife, Above the mountains and... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 sider
...fcriptures as pleafant and ify, when we are accufcomed to it. Thus ;n fays, of wifdpm, Prov. iii. 17. her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace ;" and David ays, Pf. cxix. 165. " Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing {hall offend... | |
 | 1783 - 360 sider
...improvements; for the more any one improves in wifdom, the more he deArcs to be acquainted with her ; for " her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace." Now when any one acquires thefe valuable bleflings of health, honour, riches and wifdom, merely by... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1786 - 348 sider
...appearance, ftill increafe in beauty the further they are explored, and lead to full and perfect enjoyment : Her ways are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace *. Nor is the mifery me teaches us to avoid, lefs formidable, than the reward * Ecclqf. iii. 17. which... | |
 | sir Walter James James - 1786 - 366 sider
...life itfelf -, and happy they, who, in their moral conduit, condufr, follow firrplicity : for " all her ways, are ways of pleafantnefs, and all her paths are peace ! " LETTER XLVII. A DIEU ! a long adieu to the •*- white hours of domeftic peace ! — O, my Carolina... | |
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire... 
