 | John AUSTIN (Roman Catholic Writer.) - 1706 - 662 pages
...the Ability of thy Hands j for the Lord is thy Rewarder, and he will repay thee Seven times as much. When a Man's Ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his Enemies to be at Peace with him. The Heart of Man devifeth his Way, but the Lord direfteth his Steps. He that is patient is... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1711 - 892 pages
...accompliihing of it. And nothing in the World ihall be able to oppofe or hinder it. For ivken я Mans Ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his Enemies to be at Peace -with him, Prov. xvi. 17. Yea, the Stones of the Earth, the Beafts of the Field, the Fowls of the Air,... | |
 | Caleb Fleming - 1749 - 172 pages
...which the impious have not been able to ftare out of countenance for near three" fhoufand years, viz. when a man's ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. But becaufe we are not able to explain the manner of God's influences and operations, in... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1758 - 276 pages
...refraineth the Spirit of Princes, and if •wonderful among the Kings of the Earth *. When the Ways of a Man pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his Enemies to be at Peace isoitb him -j-. But if their Enmity continues, he can check, he can break their Power, at its very... | |
 | English literature - 1776 - 746 pages
...as Time, and ал appetite as keen a» Death. The quotation which ye have made from Proverbs, that " when a man's ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him," is very unwifely choftn on your part ; becaufe it amounts to a proof, that the king's ways... | |
 | John Griffith - Griffith, John, 1713-1776 - 1779 - 458 pages
...authority to fpeak feelingly to the ftates of his hearers, in him that proverb was remarkably verified, " When a man's '* ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even " his enemies to beat peace with him." In doubtful cafes, he manifefted an exemplary tendernefs and forbearance, particularly... | |
 | Robert Walker - Sermons - 1796 - 428 pages
...them in fecret, are for the moft part rewarded by him openly, according to what the wife man faith, " When a man's ways pleafe the Lord, " he maketh even his enemies to be at peace •'with him." Whereas it holds almoft univerfally true, that men lofe refpe£ in proportion as they... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 630 pages
...becaufe the quarrel is the Lord's. 5. He can make enemies themfelves thy auxiliaries in this war : 'e When a man's ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." The earth many times helps the 'woman, as we read, Rev. xii. He rules in the midft of his... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1801 - 356 pages
...invariably directed by his will and word. May we " walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleafing :" and " when a man's ways pleafe the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." To CONCLUDE : IF, Brethren, we have any true love for Mafonry ; if we have at heart the... | |
 | Samuel Clark - Bible - 1803 - 244 pages
...fhall be clothed with fhame, and the dwelling-place of the wicked fhall come to nought. Prov. xvi. 7. When a man's ways pleafe the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. . If. xxv. 5. Thou fhalt bring down the noife of fti angers as the heat in a dry place ;... | |
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... calling us to a Reformation of our provoking Evils, as the only way to avoid that Wrath of his, which does not only threaten, but confume us. 'Tis becaufe we have been Deaf to thofe Calls that we are now by a provoked God laid open to the Wrath of... 
