 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 382 páginas
...made fat, and he that watereth is watered also himself. There is that giveth and yet inoreaseth. There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty. Giving here, no more than in America, does not impoverish ; withholding doth not enrich. The churches... | |
 | John W. McClung - 1851 - 386 páginas
...a forcible commentary upon the sacred precept, — "There is that giveth and yet increaseth ; there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." years before this, in May, 1758, there were only five schools, and the whole number of pupils at them... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 346 páginas
...made fat, and he that watereth is watered also himself. There is that giveth and yet increaseth. There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty. Giving here, no more than in America, does not impoverish ; withholding doth not enrich. The churches... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1851 - 420 páginas
...and luxury, and in expenses for amusement or vice, and the consequence is poverty and want. "There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Prov. xi. 24. The divine blessing rests upon the liberal ; and while every person should make a proper... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1852 - 462 páginas
...excesses which prevail where the Gospel does not restrain men, would grind you to the dust. " There is, that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty ;" and in no case is this proverb more strikingly verified than in those parsimonious calculations... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1852 - 588 páginas
...increase ; for it is said (Proverbs xi. 24), "There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty ;" and again (Isaiah xxxii. 8), " The liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall... | |
 | James Smith - 1852 - 392 páginas
...he has and increase it. As it is written, " There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Is the silver and gold the Lord's : Then let us be willing to part with it when God call for it. Does... | |
 | 1852 - 776 páginas
...water shall be sure. This much is certain that " there is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." But you can't go (and it is not everybody's duty to go, no, that is quite clear), and perhaps you have... | |
 | Mrs. Anderson (Caroline Dorothea), Caroline Dorothea Anderson (hon.) - 1852 - 280 páginas
...enlarged demands of a man would require. " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Fully aware of this, a spirit of true generosity had been cultivated, while the reckless squandering... | |
 | James Harington Evans - 1852 - 708 páginas
...for itself, longs, desires, prays, and yet receives little. There is too much self in this: "There is that withholdeth more than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty." Ah, if the saints of God were more disposed to leave that which pampereth the flesh, strengthencth... | |
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There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more •than is meet, and it tendeth to poverty. 
