| Richard Shackleton - Quakers - 1822 - 242 pages
...clouds, and watching which way the wind (the spirit) is driving them, is not the way for us to profit. ' He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth clouds shall not reap.' * * We have abundant cause to rely on that bountiful and gracious hand, and... | |
| 1823 - 736 pages
...they shall reap, if they faint not.' To them the exhortation is addressed, ' In the morning sow thy seed, and, in the evening, withhold not thine hand, for thou knowest not which shall prosper, this or that, or whether both shall be alike good." And, if he who painted for... | |
| Christian life - 1863 - 350 pages
...avail — -to do the same. She was one who never lost sight of the precept, " In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand :...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that," * but, in her own quiet unobtrusive way, was constantly trying to fulfil it. On the present occasion... | |
| Lady - Bible - 1824 - 452 pages
...follow his own beautiful precept : " In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand ; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper — either this or that — or whether both shall be alike good." And there is reason to believe that the aberrations of this illustrious... | |
| Christian life - 1862 - 346 pages
...I had formed, while it furnished me with a striking comment on the text : " In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand ; for thou knowest not whether snail prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." " THY WILL BE DONE."... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1824 - 484 pages
...protection we enjoy ; yet we must not make this the condition of our activity for Christ. He that obteroeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. If ever God prosper us, in any great degree, it will be in the exercise of that spirit by which the... | |
| Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...battle.' " USEFULNESS OF TRACT NO. 509. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, Eccl. xi. 6. THE encouragement afforded by this passage of Holy Scripture seems peculiarly suitable... | |
| Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 0 5 As thou knowcst not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...done in other countries, in expectation of rain ; a circumstance to which Solomon seems to refer : " He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." r If they never sowed in the east but when the soil was moistened with rain, they could have no reason... | |
| Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...season. For as Solomon saith, " Qui respicit ad ventos, non seminat; et qui respicit ad nubes, non metet" (he that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap) : a man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. To conclude ; behaviour seemeth to me as a garment... | |
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