...this be not the cafe, what is your opulence to the reft of mankind, and is it juft that, becaufe you are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day "f~, advantages denied to your poor brother, he uiould alfo be deprived by you of one of his deareft...

...will assuredly bite you !" The little girl to whom these entreaties were addressed, was of that class who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. Emmeline, like many other little girls of the same rank, was burthened with the adornments of mature...

...shall be measured to you again." For it is quite possible for those who are within the Church, and who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, that is, for those who are in possession of goods and truths from the Word, and enjoy all the privileges...

...pity, Consider what they have. They have houses, and lands, and goods laid up for many years: they are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day. But what is all this ? Poor, low things at best; of the earth, earthy; which have no excellencies in...

...vanity.' Those who wear the crown, and the coronet, and the mitre, and those who occupy the judgment-seat, who 'are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day,' would do well to remember, that when their immortal spirits pass the boundaries of time to take their...

...not even a right to esteem themselves happy. Happiness is the right as well as the attribute, only of those who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day." But we must quit this delightful novel; leaving it to" its own merits to recommend it to a host of...

...way in their wickedness," and separated for ever from all source of enjoyment. What though now they are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day P^what though now they may live at ease in their possessions, having nothing to disturb their peace...

...considers the dreadful change of state in those who are carried about in pomp and grandeur on earth; who are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day; but are, in a little time, tormented in hell fire. Formerly he valued persons by their station, by...

...wealth be hoarded in avarice, or squandered ia dissipation — if, like the rich man in the gospel, we are "clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day,'' yet overlook the poor Lazarus who is laid at our gate " full of sores;" if we see our fellow-creatures...

...the scenes, there are those, your sisters in profligacy, but not yet in misfortune, who, though they are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day, — though they ride in the gilt chariot, and shine in the dress circle, — ere long must be outcasts...