| 1611 - 360 pages
...discretion. The desire of the righteous is only good : But the expectation of the wicked is wrath. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; And...more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat: And he that watereth shall be watered also himself. He that withholdeth... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1755 - 318 pages
...done. 4,thly, Our own intereft. That maxim, Prsv. xi. 24. There is thatfcattereth, and yet increafeth; and • there is that -with-holdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty, holds in this, as much as in any thing*. Religion is a fire, which being (mothered, goes out ; but... | |
| Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...met with in the facred Writings. Prov. xi. 24. * There is " that fcattereth, and yet increafeth », and there " is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it " tendeth to poverty." So Jfts v. 41. " And » they," that is, the Apoflles, " departed from R 3 "the • Parcus Deorum cuhor,... | |
| William Penn - Society of Friends - 1782 - 506 pages
...lendeth, and difperfeth abroad." Pfalm cxii. 5, 9. " There is that fcattereth, and yet increafeth ; and " there is that with-holdeth more than is meet, but it " tendeth to poverty : the liberal foul fhall be fat," Prov. xi. 24, 25. "The bountiful eye fhall be blefTed:" Prov. xxii. 9.... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...good : but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. 24 There is that fcattereth, and yet increafeth ; and there is that with-holdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. 25 The liberal foul fhall be made fat ; and he that watereth fhall be watered alfo himfelf. 26 He that... | |
| John Disney - Sermons, English - 1793 - 516 pages
...in us. SERMON SERMON XVI. A GENEROUS TEMPER CONGENIAL WITH NATURE AND REVELATION, PROVERBS XI. 24. THERE IS THAT SCATTERETH, AND YET INCREASETH ; AND...WITH-HOLDETH MORE THAN IS MEET, BUT IT TENDETH TO POVERTY. How little the wifdom of Solomon is known to the wretched Haves of avarice and parfimony, their principles... | |
| Henry Hunter - Bible - 1794 - 508 pages
...crowns with his blemnig, all is childi.ilrand fantafticaL " There is that fcattereth^and yet mcreafeth ; and there is that withhold.eth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty/' * If this were felt and underfiood as it ought, we mould. fee lefs. eager nefs, rapacity and felfifhnefe... | |
| John Bunyan - 1795 - 638 pages
...to be kind ; and have found by experience, that I have gained thereby. " There " is that scattereth, yet increaseth ; and there is that '• with-holdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to " poverty:" " There is that maketh himself rich, yet * Sol. Song. vi. i1. ill " hath nothing : there is that maketh... | |
| William Bromley Cadogan - 1796 - 112 pages
...more, they ( are ranked among the friends of God; for, There is that Jcattereth and yet increqfeth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. <£he liberal Jculfaall be made fat, and he that watereth Jhatt be "Jmtered alfo hitnfelf. He that... | |
| Georg Joachim Zollikofer - 1802 - 592 pages
...to the poor," fays the wife man, " mall not lack." " There is that fcattereth, and yet increafeth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." Suppofe, however, that it mould not feem good to the Almighty to reward your beneficence with worldly... | |
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