 | General principles - 1847 - 132 pages
...security of a God." * THE is definite in meaning, and applies equally to the singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour."* " If he * Bacon's Essays. be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart... | |
 | Philosophy - 1847 - 380 pages
...security of a God."* THE is definite in meaning, and applies equally to the singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor."* " If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...[Prosperity and Adversity.] The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. ives, when he his God can please. His bed of wool yields safe and quiet sleeps, preuter benediction and the clearer revelation of t.od'a favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...Adversity, on which he had deeply reflected, before the edition of 1625, when it first appeared, he says : " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroicaJ virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...M'eraUy ij the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, yon will hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Uoly Ghost hath laboured more... | |
 | William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 pages
...the beauties of the New ; which are in reality greater, and carry a clearer reveliition of the Divine favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you will find more lamentable airs, than triumphant ones : and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath more... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But, to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessmg of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 492 pages
...those heavenly graces that impart a sacredness to Christian sorrow. V. HER WIDOWHOOD AND OLD AGE. " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor." LORD BACON : Essay on Adversity. " Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth." FROM the mournful... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 614 pages
...is to come, than a continual flow of success and selfgratification. Lord Bacon was right in saying, "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;...greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...[Prosperity and Adi-errity.] The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. th a modest smile, And calls them brothers, friends, and countrymen. Upon his royal face ther carricth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of Uod's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament,... | |
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. 
