Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Sermons - Page 238by Henry Melvill - 1870Full view - About this book
| 1611 - 360 pages
...fowler. Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which havingno guide, overseer,or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little... | |
| James Blair - 1740 - 476 pages
...vi. 6. Go to the Ant thou Sluggard, confider her Ways, and be wife : which having no Guide, OverJeer or Ruler, provideth her Meat in the Summer, and gathereth her Food in the HarveJl. So to convince the People of IJ'rael of Ingratitude and Inconfideration, God brings in the... | |
| David Morrice - Moral education - 1801 - 328 pages
...the instance of the ant : Go to the ant, thou sluggard (says that wisest of kings and moral writers), consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide,...meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. I may also further observe to you, that if you lavish what you have to spare, you rob the... | |
| 1877 - 594 pages
...Palestine was one cannot definitely say ; the oft-quoted passage in the Bible, ' Go to the ant, thou sluggard : consider her ' ways and be wise ; which,...meat in the summer, and gathereth her 'food in the harvest' (Prov. vi. 6-8 ; see also xxx. 25), has been generally supposed to imply that the Jews held... | |
| Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 322 pages
...learrl wisdom, foresight, care, and diligence : "Go to the ant, than sluggard, consider her ways, and le wise ; which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in summer, and gatheretli her food in the harvest *." To view these busy animals (as an ingenious author... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. On Industry and Sloth. Proverbs. Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having...meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ? Yet a little... | |
| John Robinson (Schoolmaster) - Names in the Bible - 1804 - 190 pages
.... Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse /?/>.? put far from thee. Go to the «»/, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise : Which,...provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her focd in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet... | |
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1804 - 376 pages
...i Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard ; confider her Ways, and be wife ; which having no Guide, Overfeer, or Ruler, provideth her Meat in the Summer, and gathereth her Food in the Harveft. n Eph. 4. 28. o Exod. 20. <j. p Rom. i2. io• in <3 ^ Eeclef. n. 6. ' x Thcff. 3. u, n, i0.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1805 - 262 pages
...thee, like an ambushed foe." From this hubbub of words pass to the original. " Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, er ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...field, or to lay up for winter ; but these things are man's duty ; as Prov. vi. 6. " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : Which,...meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." And chap. x. 5. &c. " He that gaihereth in summer is a wise son ; but he that sleepeth in... | |
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