The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Lincoln, Volume 1

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At the University Press, 1854 - Christian life

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Page 279 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity, for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 437 - Be not ye therefore partakers with them : for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light; (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Page 137 - I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound : everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 164 - We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy...
Page 360 - For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and then all his thoughts perish.
Page 136 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Page 404 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Page 150 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger ; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Page 233 - In Whom we have redemption through His Blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace ; wherein He hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence...
Page 14 - But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me : for it' were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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