 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1849 - 576 pągines
...therefore I am safe ; Satan cries to passengers who go right on their ways. III. The invitation : " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The pleasures of secret sin form the baits by which Satan allures and destroys thousands. It is not open... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1850 - 552 pągines
...hell, going down to the chambers " of death." And again, when she saith to the dupe of her vice, " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is " pleasant ;" the Preacher adds, " But he knoweth not that the " dead are there, and that her guests are in the depth... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1850 - 612 pągines
...— 6. I think this cannot be denied ; for daily observation evinces, that it is a natural principle, that " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant," Prov. ix. 17. The very heathens were convinced, that man was possessed with this spirit of contradiction,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 532 pągines
...day some unhappy persons, instigated by the devil, by whom these writings were secretly preser veil , and their pernicious heresies cherished, in accordance...establishment was the erection of the see of St. Andrew's into «n archbishopric by Pope Sixtus IV., in 1471. This measure was resorted to in consequence of the renewal... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - 1852 - 394 pągines
...things and desperately wicked ; long ago it was said by the tempter and responded to by the victim, " Stolen waters are sweet" and "Bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The heart is wonderfully restrained, in most cases, by the fear of the loss of reputation ; and it is a... | |
 | Hannah Webster Foster - 1855 - 318 pągines
...book, but what book it was I have forgotten, if I ever knew. No matter for that ; the quotation is, that " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." If it has reference to the pleasures which I have enjoyed with Eliza, I like it hugely, as Tristram... | |
 | Hannah Webster Foster - 1855 - 304 pągines
...book, but what book.it was I have forgotten, if I ever knew. No matter for that; the quotation is, that•" stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." If it has reference to the pleasures which I have enjoyed with Eliza, I like it hugely, as Tristram... | |
 | Christopher Oscanyan - 1857 - 468 pągines
...of the forbidden fruits, or to avail themselves of this occasion to test the truth of the proverb, that " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The more faithful, in the midst of their sufferings remember that as Mohammed was, fortunately, of human... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1859 - 342 pągines
...many of its sentences. " Man's goings are of the Lord ; how can a man then understand his own way ?" " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." " The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord." " The righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked."... | |
 | Richard Meux Benson - 1860 - 338 pągines
...call of Wisdom, inviting the simple to her banquet. Her feast, however, is the feast of self-will. " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The wine of grace she has not to give, but the stolen waters are substituted for it — the cup which is... | |
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... stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 
