| Jonathan Edwards - 1831 - 666 pàgines
...assuming in their external appearance and behaviour : but they ought to consider those scriptures, — " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." " These six things doth the Lord hate ; yea, seven are an abomination unto him : a proud look," &c.... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 538 pàgines
...himself, adventure thereon. It was as well according to wisdom as modesty, that David could say, ' My heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty, neither...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.' In every undertaking two things occur to be considered: what of difficulty is found therein, and what... | |
| George Fox - 1831 - 512 pàgines
...armed with this breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of hope and salvation. David said, ' Mine heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.' Psalm cxxxi. 1. And the apostle said, ' I do exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence,... | |
| George Fox - 1831 - 518 pàgines
...faith and love, and the helmet of hope and salvation. David said, ' Mine heart is not haughty, nor mint eyes lofty ; neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.' Psalm cxxxi. 1. And the apostle said, ' I do exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence,... | |
| William Jay - 1833 - 518 pàgines
...thee, and say, Who is the Lord ! or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do 1 exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely, I have behaved and quieted... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pàgines
...shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Mat. xxiii. 12. . A ; surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother ; my soul ¿i even... | |
| Robert Leighton, James Aikman - 1832 - 758 pàgines
...unit himself very disproportioned to the present station, be it never so mean ; he can say with David, Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me, Psal. cxxxi. 1. But vain minds would still be tampering with the greatest affairs, and dwell not with... | |
| William Jay - 1832 - 704 pàgines
...our own hearts ? — Can we appeal to God, who is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things ? " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." " Yet did he not rise from a cottage into a palace ?" This was not from himself, but from the appointment... | |
| William Jay - 1833 - 722 pàgines
...appeal to our own heam?Can we appeal to God, who is greater than our hearts, and knowetli all things ? " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." " Yet did he not rise from a cottage into a palace ?" This was not from himself, but from the appointment... | |
| George Horne - 1833 - 438 pàgines
...spirit of this short but lovely Psalm, and copy after the example which it setteth before them. "1. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me." Pride beginneth in the heart, and discovereth itself in the " eyes," the countenance, and the carriage... | |
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