| Thomas Boston - 1776 - 610 páginas
...gofpel of Chrift, I was often a moving fight to his forrowful father. Whence I muft needs conclude, that " it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth :" and furely it was good and neceffary for me. Being allowed only L. 16 Scots by my father for the... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1776 - 582 páginas
...gofpel of Chrift, I was often a moving fight to " his forrowful father. Whence I muft needs conclude, that " it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth:" and furely it was good and necefTary for me. Being allowed only L. 1 6 Scots by my father for the laureation,... | |
| Esq. J. Stephens - 1777 - 392 páginas
...read the writings of the ancient Prophets, he would have found the Prophet Jeremiah $ obferving, " That it is good for a " man to bear the yoke in his youth ; he fitteth " alone, and keepeth filence, becaufe he hath " borne it upon him : He giveth his cheek... | |
| William Jay - 1805 - 486 páginas
...idlenefs. Though he be a rich man, and have a vineyard of his own, he requires them to labour. And " it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his " youth." The Grand Seignior of Turkey is always taught fome mechanical bufinefs. The Jews, whatever was their... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 páginas
...ordinances of his Maker : thou wouldest have him run loose, like the wild ass in the desert: God tells him, It is good for a man, to bear the yoke in his youth; Lam. iii. 17: even the yoke of the divine precepts, the stooping whereunto is the best and truest of... | |
| George Whitefield, Joseph Gurney - 1809 - 334 páginas
...weep, let us weep for our stubborness, Happy they who are used to be put into the fire betimes ! " It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Some years ago, when 1 was at the Orphan-house, they told me they were going to yoke two steers together.... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 páginas
...down short of a sight and sense of the law and sin, is a bad piece of work, Timothy. Jeremiah says, " It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth ;" and to put " his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope." "-It is good that a man should... | |
| Robert May - 1812 - 280 páginas
...to enjoy the pleasures of religion. The remembrance of the sins of youth is painful in the extreme. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Many when they grow up to years of maturity have to lament that they have laid a foundation in youth... | |
| George Fox - 1821 - 420 páginas
...And it is good for a man that he should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth ; he sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. No%v that which hath acted... | |
| 1838 - 504 páginas
...needeth the less of the rod if the child be brought under discipline betimes. And thus, on many accounts, "it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth." — Scougal. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. FROM ST. AUGUSTIN. WHEREFORE the true and supreme God, with his... | |
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