Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel - Page 398by John Flavel - 1799Full view - About this book
| John Summerfield - Sermons, American - 1845 - 460 pages
...like an armed man. Hear the reproving language of the prophet to these idle professors: "Ye have sown much, and bring in little : ye eat, but ye have not...but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little ; and... | |
| Thomas Dick - Education - 1845 - 752 pages
...house of the Lord lie waste 1 Therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your ways. Ye have sown much and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not...not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is no warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put them in a bag full of holes." In the course... | |
| 1876 - 818 pages
...can deal with it ; listen to this — Thus saith the Lord ofHosts, Consider your ways. Ye have sown much and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye drink, but ye are nat filed with drink ; ye clothe you, and- there is none warm ; and he that tarneth wages, earneth... | |
| 1852 - 672 pages
...keeps numbers in temporal embarrassments all the days of their life. To such God says, " Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye drink, but ye ore not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none worm ; and he that earneth wages, eanieth... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1846 - 424 pages
...carefulness is a spendthrift after all. " Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not...but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. ... Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little ;... | |
| Baptists - 1846 - 308 pages
...? must we not expect then to reap corruption? "Ye bring in little:" little real good for the soul. "Ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not filled i ye clothe ye, but ye are not warm." Outward things cannot keep a soul warm within : true warmth of... | |
| Protestantism - 1847 - 648 pages
...us. So Haggai i. 5, 6: " Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not...but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." " lu the day of adversity consider." — Eccl. vii.... | |
| William Jackson - Clergy - 1847 - 422 pages
...this house lie waste? Now therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not...but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." t Mark the judgment by which God " Prov. xxviii. 27.... | |
| Elizabeth Gurney Fry - Prison reformers - 1847 - 586 pages
...strike me, i. 5, 6 : " Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but ye have not...but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put them into a bag with holes." Whether they may not be applied to myself and some... | |
| Thomas Wilson - Bishops - 1847 - 578 pages
..." Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your ways : Ye have sown much and bring in little ; SER"- ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not — filled with drink ; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag... | |
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