 | Job Orton - Old age - 1801 - 374 pages
...them.' May this this be the wifdom of all the aged ! " Allthat is in the world," faith the apoftle, " is the luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life" — the pleafures, honours" and riches of this world. The profpeft of death led Barzillai to... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...Lord in the way to true happinefs. They will fall down before thefe three that are in the world : " The luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life," i John, ii. 1 6. They will wrap themfelves up in the world's profits, or drench themfelves in... | |
 | John Allen - 1802 - 1326 pages
...nature we are his vaflals and flaves, and hfe as the Strong man armed, takes the command over us, and by the luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, he binds our hearts unto himfelf and his fervile employment, and we as willingly go as he calls,... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 600 pages
...unreftrained indulgence of pleafure. Senfual appetite and paffion carry them on with unbridled fury. The lull of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, poflefs their affections, and their prevailing defire is to gratify thefe appetites, as far as... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 436 pages
...Lebanon, my fpoufe, with me from Lebanon." Bid a long farewell now, and turn your baeks on the lufts of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life.-~There is, 3. A ftand ing off from fin, as the word properly fignifies: Prov. iv. 1 5." Avoid... | |
 | 1803 - 474 pages
...eminently poflefled. Though he faid, " he had fëllowfnip with the Father ; yet was he overcome by the luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life — which were not of the Father, but of the world." And the Cataftrophe which terminated his... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - Bible - 1803 - 422 pages
...practice and the belief of it, by treacherous paffions within, and violent temptations from without, by " the luft of the flefh, the lu'ft of the eye, and the pride of life." Thefe are in facl; the moll common, the moil powerful enemies of our faith. Thefe are the weeds... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins - 1804 - 404 pages
...love the world, the love of the •* Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, " theluft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the ** pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world," t John ii. 15, 16. And the Apoftle James obferves,... | |
 | David Hartley - 1810 - 554 pages
...inherit the kingdom of GOD. If we govern not our tongues, we deceive ourfelves ; our religion is vain. The luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, are inconfiftent with the love of the father, /. e. with happinefs, with freedom from tormenting... | |
 | William Holmes - Allegories - 1854 - 432 pages
...The moral of this is, that dangers ftand thick all through the path of human life ; dangers fuch as the luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, with their numerous attendants. Falfe doctrines alfo, the tendency of which is to deftroy the... | |
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The luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, are inconfiftent with the love of the Father, /'. e. 
