 | 1858 - 878 pages
...it, however familiar, for our readers' gratification : — " Prosperity," he says, " is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of...and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even m the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols... | |
 | 1858 - 930 pages
...Pharaoh ; but for their own souls they have none."— Ibid. ADVERSITY. " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament : Adversity is the blessing of...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if 30 SHOET PAPERS. you listen to David's harp, yon shall hear... | |
 | Ireland - 1858 - 770 pages
...blessing of the New I' " ' Right, Bess, right ! and it carrieth the greater benediction and the dearer revelation of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament,...you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many heaven-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more, to speak it reverently,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...passage, first published in 1625, will show the extent of the change : " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - Christian biography - 1858 - 484 pages
...Testament religion. Lord Bacon somewhere remarks, favouring this idea, that " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour." It cannot be denied that very many of God's children have been chosen in... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Love - 1858 - 294 pages
...Bacon, fallen from his honours, wrote indeed those exquisite phrases :—' Prosperity is the blessing of the Old ' Testament; adversity is the blessing...' carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence ' of God's favour. We see in needle-works and em' broideries, it is more pleasing to have... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...Bess, right ! and it carrieth the greater benediction and the dearer revelation of God's favour. Tet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many heaven-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more, to speak it reverently,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction^and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...of adversity is fortitude, which In morals Is the more hcrolcal virtue. Prosperity Is the blesulng of the Old Testament, Adversity is the blessing of the New, which earrieth the greater benediction, and the clearvi revelation of God'* tuvor. Yet even In the OU Testament,... | |
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. 
