...wherefore, Setter is a little with right, than great revenues without equity. Give me not poverty, nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me,...or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of God in vain. Pr. i. 19. xxiii. 6. xxi. 26. xxiii. 4. xi. 24. xxviii. 8. EC. iv. 8. Pr. xxx. 15. xxvii....

...E2 world : and indeed it feems like the language of one that is entering upon the ftage of life : " Two things have I required of thee, deny me them not...poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me ; left I be full and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord ? or left I be poor, and flea!, and take the...

...wherefore, Better is a little with right, than great revenues without equity. Give me not poverty, nor riches : feed me with food convenient for me,...or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of God in vain. Pr. i. 19. xxiii. 6. xxi. 26. xxiii. 4. xi. 24. xxviii. 8. EC. iv. 8. Pr. xxx. 15. xxvii....

...wanting. Agur's prayer, with the reasons of his wish, are full to this purpose: " Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with food convenient for me; lest...Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and taker the name of my God in vain." From what hath been said, I shall, in the second place, offer some...

...consideration that Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. 'Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them...and steal, and take the name- of my God in vain.' I shall fill the remaining part of my paper with a very pretty allegory, which is wrought into a play...

...consideration that Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. ' Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them...full and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord ? or Jest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.' I shall fill the remaining part of...

...consideration that Agur founded his prayer, which, for the wisdom of it, is recorded in holy writ. ' Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them...with food convenient for me : lest I be full and deny thce, and say, Who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.'...

...for ourselves, every wise man would say with Agur in the book of Proverbs,* " Give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, lest...poor^ and steal, and take the name of my GOD in vain." But He, who best knows what is fit for us, has not left us this choice. He has * Proverbs xxx. 8, 9....

...require^ And belter things than those which we desire. Dryd. Palnm. St Arc. Give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me :...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. Agur's Prayer. Prov. ch. xxj, v. 8, 9. INTRODUCTION. PERMIT me, Stanhope ', as I form'd thy youth To...

...kingdom, Prov. xxx. Therefore Agur presented this excellent prayer unto God, " Give me neither poverty nor riches •, feed me with food convenient for me...poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." Wretched man ! to what purpose dost thou labour so carefully to gather up riches for thy children ?...