 Go to now, ye rich men ; weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 4001859Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...the conception." Riches corrupt whilst the coveteous man accumulates them : " Go to now, ye rich mm, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you ; your richr-s are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten, your jrold and silver is cankered." Houses built... | |
 | Paul Hawkins Fisher - 1823 - 80 pages
...impediments, or be dismayed even by repeated failures. But to the former the volume of Truth has said,— "thy gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness againt thee, and shall eat thy flesh as it were fire ;" — and to the latter the Spirit of the past... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Sower (Parable) - 1823 - 342 pages
...0 hear with solemn attention, the sentence of provoked justice and abused mercy denounced upon you. Go to now ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall eome upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments moth-eaten. Four gold and silver is cankered,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 562 pages
...oppression, cruelty, and despotism. As a specimen, I quote the following from the Epistle of St. JAMKS : " Go to, now, ye rich men ; weep and howl for your miseries...shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your Hesh as it were fire : ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. " Behold the hire of the... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1824 - 480 pages
...all earthly things, then must we apply to ourselves a lesson of holy warning from the Word of God ; " Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries...you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you,... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 520 pages
...hear with solemn attention, the sentence of provoked justice and abused mercy denounced upon you. ' Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries...you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you,... | |
 | Benjamin Boothroyd - 1824 - 626 pages
....Your rich stores are corrupted, and your gar3 ments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are rusted ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you,...shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped up treasure 4 in the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields,... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 686 pages
...now, for ye shall mourn and weep," Luke vi. 24, 25; and call upon you as the apostle James does, " Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you," James v. 1 ; and again, " Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep ; let your laughter be turned to mourning,... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 462 pages
...him that knoweth to do good, and doeth /,' not, to him it is sin. CHAP. V. Of wicked rich men, fyc. GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and... | |
 | Christian life - 1865 - 346 pages
...themselves " treasures " on earth, where moth and rust corrupt.]: St. James even more explicitly : " Go to now, ye rich men ; weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. * Persia had great wardrobes, where there were always many hundred habits, sorted, ready for presents... | |
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