 | Samuel Richardson - Novelists, English - 1804 - 360 pages
...spirit is enjoined as the principal ornament of a wife ; " for, after this manner, says the apostle, in the old time, the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, even as, Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord ; whose... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1805 - 544 pages
...that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel. 4. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that...corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. THAT nothing may be wanting to the qualifying... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1806 - 270 pages
...great esteem with God; God sets the greatest value upon persons of a quiet spirit, 1 Pet. iii. 4. " But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that...corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." A quiet spirit is a spark of the divine nature:... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pages
...the earth; and fhall delight thcmfelves in the abundance of peace. I Pet. 3. 3, 4. Whofe adorning — let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which...corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet fpirit, which is in the fight of God of great price. m Prov. 17. 22. A merry heart doeth good like... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 pages
...holy life and conversation, or (as the apostle expresses it, alluding probably to this very tiling) the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit (becoming the bride of Christ) which is in the sight of God of great price.'t They are also... | |
 | William Penn - Christian life - 1807 - 394 pages
...adorning be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and the wearing of gold, and of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart,...after this manner in the old time, the holy women, who also trusted in God, adorned them* Mark i. 7, 8. selves. Wherefore gird up the loins of your minds,... | |
 | Eliza Hunt - 1808 - 138 pages
...let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel : ' ' But let it be the hidden man of the...corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."—! Peter iii. 2, 3, 4. Meek is her lowly mien... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1808 - 282 pages
...it not be that . outward adorning, of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart,...corruptible; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in tlie sight of God of great price. For after this manner, in the old time, the holy... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - Quakers - 1808 - 442 pages
...that delights in finery and in bravery of apparel, in which the true adorning doth not stand, but in the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even a meek and quiet spirit, 1 Pet. iii. 4. And the grace of God, which hath appeared to all, and which... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...chaste conversation, joined with a reverent awe and due respects to themselves, as your head. III. 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that VIM* is not corruptible. But let their chief ornaments be in the inward disposition at * holy and good... | |
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Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which... 
