| George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...fellow-creatures has lived in vain, for when he dies he can be of 4 no service to them. Again, like as he that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap ; so he that looketh only for fit objects and seasons of charity will never be actively benevolent.... | |
| Richard Shackleton - Quakers - 1822 - 242 pages
...clouds, and watching which way the wind (the spirit) is driving them, is not the way for us to profit. ' He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth clouds shall not reap.' * * We have abundant cause to rely on that bountiful and gracious hand, and... | |
| Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 240 pages
...clouds, and watching which way the wind (the spirit) is driving them, is not the way for us to profit. ' He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth clouds shall not reap.' * » We have abundant cause to rely on that bountiful and gracious hand, and... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1824 - 484 pages
...protection we enjoy ; yet we must not make this the condition of our activity for Christ. He that obteroeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. If ever God prosper us, in any great degree, it will be in the exercise of that spirit by which the... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...done in other countries, in expectation of rain ; a circumstance to which Solomon seems to refer : " He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." r If they never sowed in the east but when the soil was moistened with rain, they could have no reason... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 0 5 As thou knowcst not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that... | |
| Matthew Henry - 1825 - 556 pages
...encouragement, and the encouragement of his friends, from that Scripture, Ecclesiastes, xi. 4, He lhat observes the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. • P. Henry. Orig. MS. t Opportunity is the flower and cream of time. All opportunity is time, but... | |
| Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...which side ever it falls, it will there be found, when the owner thereof inquireth after it. Ver. 4.] He that observeth the wind, shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds, shall not reap.] By these similitudes, he preventeth all those pretences and objections, which carnal hearts are apt... | |
| John Scott - Sermons, English - 1826 - 490 pages
...this would be a sanctuary, when all earthly comforts should fail : and he remembered the wise maxim, He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap, Eccles. xi. 4. and therefore without minding the weather, or taking directions from the sky, he went... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 pages
...When in the riches of His grace supreme He gave His life to ransom and redeem. F a SIGNS AND TOKENS. "He that observeth the wind, shall not sow; and he that regardeth the derails shall not reap.'' — Ecclesiastes, xi. 4. CHRISTIAN pilgrim, seeking still Zion's high and... | |
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