| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. The rich and the poor meet together : the Lord is the maker of them all. [Prov.xxii. I, 2. Labour not to be rich : cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...existence. To the propriety of the sentiments now slated, the sacred Scriptures bear ample testimony. " The rich and the poor meet together ; the Lord is the maker of them all."* " Did not he that made me in the womb make my servant, and did he not fashion us alike ?"| "... | |
| Mary Saunders - 1836 - 316 pages
...pervades the apartment. In different parts we perceive this excellent motto attracting our attention : " The rich and the poor meet together : the Lord is the maker of them all." We were informed the room is as yet but indifferently attended. We are sorry for it : but to... | |
| Hannah More - 1836 - 444 pages
...familiarly to him on religious subjects. It seems to be a practical comment on that text which says, ' The rich and the poor meet together : the Lord is the Maker of them all.' And so far from creating disrespect, sir, and that nonaensical wicked notion about equality,... | |
| Jasper Adams - 1837 - 532 pages
...must all finish it, on the same terras. It is emphatically there, that, as the wisest of men says, " the rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the Maker of them all."* By thus habitually joining in the stated solemnities of a common religious service, the pride... | |
| 1841 - 538 pages
...derived the human race from the same father, Adam, — the same mother, Eve, — the same Maker, God. " The rich and the poor meet together ; the Lord is the Maker of them all." They have the same limited faculties ; they feel the same wants ; they are subject to the same... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 590 pages
...The poor have the Gospel preached to them." How strikingly does this verify the saying of Solomon, " The rich and the poor " meet together ; the Lord is the maker of " them all." In no instance has this truth been so clearly manifested, as under the Gospel Dispensation. And... | |
| Jacob Abbot Cummings - 1838 - 180 pages
...rather to be chosen than great riches, and inring favour rather than silver and gold. The rich and poor meet together : the Lord is the maker of them all. A prudent man fbreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. By humility and the... | |
| Samuel Horatio Stearns - 1838 - 436 pages
...strong-minded and the weak, the refined and the uncultivated, the high and the low, the old and the young, the rich and the poor, meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all, and they have all occasion to bow before him in acts of devotion, and to attend to the instructions... | |
| Charles Augustus Thurlow - 1838 - 182 pages
...God can give peace of mind and real happiness to any who truly love and serve him. In this respect " the rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all." PROV. xxii, 2. CHAPTER IV. DISINTERESTEDNESS ABSENCE OF SELFISHNESS. Another striking .feature... | |
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