 | Henry Forster Burder - Christian life - 1843 - 236 pages
...ordinary pleasures of life. " Go thy way," said the inspired writer of the book of Ecclesiastes, " eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works." Eccl. ix. 7. 4. This testimony can administer the most desirable... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 630 pages
...may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom." This was a custom prevalent in the East : " Go thy way; eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God now accepteth thv works. Let thy garments be always wMte, and let thy head lack no ointment."... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Faith - 1844 - 460 pages
...and for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof."t And Solomon exhorts, " Go thy 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 lack no... | |
 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...will be upon all thou hast, and upon thine ordinary employments and refreshments : now thou mayest eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for GOD now accepteth thy works." For, " whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do," if we... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 pages
...evidences of grace, what are ? Chide thyself and pray thyself out of thy complaining temper. " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works." (Eccles. ix. 7.) And thus you have my answer, as well to the... | |
 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1845 - 696 pages
...says, as he said of old to king Solomon and others, to Constantine and the reformers, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God now accepteth thy works," Ecc. ix. 7. Let him that is athirst come, Rev. xxii. 17. All... | |
 | Baptists - 1856 - 880 pages
...portions of Scripture, that the Lord gave mo before I left England, much supported me : — " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Eccles. ix. 7. " Be still, and know that I am God." Psalm xlvi.... | |
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 178 pages
...CELEBRATION • In the words of Bill and Ted, "Party on, dudes" and "Be excellent to each other." • Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. — Ecclesiastes 9:7 • Drink and be merry, for our time on earth is short, and death lasts... | |
 | Ivan Bunin - Fiction - 1992 - 228 pages
...sweet . . . a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink and be merry . . . Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. What is night? An hour when he who is the slave of time and... | |
 | Wolfgang Sachs - Business & Economics - 1992 - 324 pages
...removed from the truly worldly aim set down in Ecclesiastes by Kohelet, the voice of a tribal assembly: Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. . . . Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity ...... | |
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Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. 
