 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1841 - 496 pages
...man is merciful and ever lendeth.' He shows favour and lendeth, and disperseth abroad. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and there is that...withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The liberal soul shall be fat ; the bountiful eye shall be blessed. The churl and liberal man are described,... | |
 | Ferdinando Tracy Travell - 1841 - 338 pages
...deserves shall be sure at length to overtake him. The twenty-fourth verse runs thus: there is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that...withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. The word scattering must here mean communicating and doing good to others; which, if it do not directly... | |
 | John Bunyan - Christian fiction - 1842 - 550 pages
...thereby. " There is that scattereth, and yet in" creaseth ; and there is that which holdeth more " than it meet, but it tendeth to poverty." " There " is that...poor, yet hath great " riches." Prov. xi. 24. xiii. 7. Then SAMUEL whispered to CHRISTIANA, his mother, and said, ' Mother, this is a very good man's ' house... | |
 | 1745 - 518 pages
...we should be coveting riches, let us abandon this thought, and desire the riches of God's grace. " There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing...maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches." (Prov. xiii. 7.) If we have wealth, let us lay it out to the glory of the bounteous Giver : and if we thirst... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...fat, &c. He that j trusteth in his riches shall fall. — Prov. xi. 4. 24, 23. 28 ; Ezek. vii. 19. There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing;...is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches, &c. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, &c.— Prov. xiii. 7. 11. The poor is hated even of... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 556 pages
...after, and to bring upon them the evil which they so greatly dread and labor to avoid. " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and th^ere is that...withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." " He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him ; but blessing shall be upon the head of him... | |
 | 1842 - 238 pages
...Salvation to the heathen, who are perishing for want of it ? THE PROVERB. No. III. " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; And there is that...withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. PTOT. xi. 24. THE husbandman scatters the corn — it lies in the ground hidden for a time — rain... | |
 | 1842 - 278 pages
...soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully" ; and, in the words of the " wise man," " there is that scattereth and yet increaseth ; and there is that...withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." And of all others, moral and intellectual poverty is the worst, and the most to be dreaded and shunned.... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 pages
...after, and to bring upon them the evil which they so greatly dread and labor to avoid. " There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and there is that...withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." " He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him ; but blessing shall be upon the head of him... | |
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There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. 
