| William Chillingworth - Protestantism - 1820 - 508 pages
...Scripture, I will only make use of one taken out of (I think) this our apostle, where he saith, * " Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have; for God hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Which words by him quoted,... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1822 - 326 pages
...make you humble, and contented with whatever things it may please God to give you in this world. ' Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and...as ye have ; for He hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.* (Heb. xiii. 5.)" Then Mrs. Fairchild shewed to her children, how much God loves... | |
| W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...Covetousness, which is idolatry. (3 Col. 5 ) 20. How does the apostle exhort the Hebrews against this sin .' Let your conversation be without covetousness, and...things as ye have, for He hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. (13 Heb. 5.) 21. Are piety and contentment preferable to large possessions i... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 598 pages
...uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth as richly all things to enjoy P." And yet again, "Let your conversation be without covetousness, and...things as ye have; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee : so that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper'." And all this is by St.... | |
| John Arrowsmith - Puritans - 1822 - 410 pages
...made on purpose to assure us of God's caring for us : that in particular, " Let your conversa^ tion be without covetousness, and be content with such...things as ye have, for he hath said, I will never leave tbee nor forsake thee." f Where there is in the original an accumulation of many negatives to make... | |
| Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...the heart, who can tell how far, and how fatally, it may spread ? " Let yoar conversation," then, " be without covetousness; and be content with such...as ye have : for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." — " Trust in the Lord, and do good ; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and... | |
| Abraham Booth - Grace (Theology) - 1822 - 280 pages
...the desire of wealth as a criminal effect of avarice. lift your conversation be without covetoumess, and be content with such things as ye have ; for He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, Heb. xiii. 5. And where, instead of this self-denied temper, a desire of increasing... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Heb. xiii. 5, 6. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as yc have : for he haih smd, 1 will never leave tliee, nor forsahe thee ; so that we may boldly say,... | |
| 1823 - 154 pages
...Covetousness, which is idolatry. (3 Col. 5.) 20. How does the apostle exhort the Hebreua against this sin? Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and...as ye have : for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. (13 Heb. 5.) 21. Are piety and contentment preferable to large posseuimuj Better... | |
| 1823 - 570 pages
...to the New. Hence the Apostle says, " Let your conversation (or conduct) be without covetousne«s ; and be content With such 'things as ye have: for he hath said, I WILL NEVER LEAVE THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE." Heb. xiü. 5. We are not, indeed, to tempt the Lord, and follow the advice... | |
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