 | 1611 - 360 pages
...way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white ; and let thy head...joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that... | |
 | James Burroughs - 1733 - 296 pages
...refine and elevate the foul, but never to wafte and confume the body. 'Tis a precept of fcripture ; Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. If we muft do nothing but pray ; what room would there be for reading the fcriptures, for meditation,... | |
 | John Hutchinson - 1749 - 524 pages
...Interceffor was to be clothed with white Linnen, Pfalm li. 9. IJhall be whiter than Snow. Eccl. ix. 8. Let thy Garments be always white, and let thy Head lack no Ointment. Ifa. i. 18. Shall be as white as Snow. Dan. xi. 35. to make them white jXii. lo.Jhall purify themfeives... | |
 | Thomas Bradbury - Baptism - 1749 - 260 pages
...living Water. A chear- John vii. ful Life arid Temper is very properly fet out by 38. this Figure. Let thy Garments be always white, and let thy Head lack no Ointment. Baptifm Eccl.ix.8^ reprefents both the Satisfaction Chrift made for our Sins by his Blood, and the... | |
 | William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 522 pages
...knowledge, and comfort, by faith. Thus Christ most heartily invites, Eat, 0 friends! drink, O beloved! " Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart," Eccles. ix. 7. MAY 27. — These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification - 1767 - 464 pages
...would I venture to addrefs You, in the elegant and chearing Language of the royal PREACHER; Go thy Way, eat thy Bread with Joy, and drink thy Wine with a merry Heart; for GOD now accepteth § both thy Perfon, and thy Performances. But, * z Cor. viii. 12. •{• 2 Cor.... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the fun. 7 fl Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart:, for God now accepteth thy works. . ;,.;,. -;_ .- / ;_ ,. 8 Let thy garments be always whjfej.and let... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - Faith - 1793 - 496 pages
...down ? when I can but be fo happy to keep in with him ; I will fay to myfelf, (as Ecclef. ix. 8.) " Eat thy bread with joy, and " drink thy wine with a merry heart, for now God " accepts thy works." And when the Spirit's oil of gladnefs is poured into my foul, O that... | |
 | Missions - 1804 - 664 pages
...faith, and as the answer to thy departed husband's pr&yer while he was here below. "Go thy way, ent thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath accepted thy work of faith and labour »f love. But whether you eat or drink, or whatever... | |
 | John Willison - 1798 - 644 pages
...thee, which may make them fweet to thy tafte: That word inEccl. ix. 7. belongs to thee, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works." Every morfel of bread thou eateft comes from thy Father's hand,... | |
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