that they commit not offices or the government of provinces to needy persons and such as are in debt; for peoples, that they allow not their rulers to be too much in want of money. PROVERB. (25.) A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a... Works of Francis Bacon - Page 257by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...as follows : 1 The law for the Mosaic law. ; In the English Bible this verse is translated thus : " A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. " (Proverbs, \\\, 26.) " Cursed lie he that removeth his neighbour's land-mark. And all the people... | |
| 1851 - 1282 pages
...and in a wide house. 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 26 Л nd whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you 27 It is not good to eat much honey : so for men to search their own glory is not glory. 28 He that... | |
| Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...house. 23 8 The north wind driveth away rain : so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. 26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. 25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. 27 It is not good to eat much... | |
| John Flavel - Salvation - 1853 - 494 pages
...of profane sinners passes away in silence, but all the neighbourhood will ring with your misconduct: "A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring," Pror. xxv. 26. The scandalous falls of good men are like a bag of poison cast into the spring from... | |
| Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 696 pages
...temptation [has hereby been laid before the minds of multitudes. The wise man says, "A righteous man falling before the wicked, is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring." There have been among us those persons who have made such a profession of righteousness, that much... | |
| Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 696 pages
...temptation has hereby been laid before the minds of multitudes. The wise man says, "A righteous man falling before the wicked, is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring." There have been among us those persons who have made such a profession of righteousness, that much... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1856 - 726 pages
...godly are oppressed by lhenC*a things are quite out of joint : Prov. xx. 26, "A righteous man falling before the wicked, is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring." So one wicked man makes many hundreds, yea thousands, of precious saints sacrifice to his lust and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...the full and hungry horse-leech. Fans turbatus pede, et vena eorrupta, est Justus cadens coram impio, [A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.] Here is noted, that one judicial and exemplar iniquity in the face of the world, doth trouble the fountains... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1858 - 726 pages
...and authority, and the godly are oppressed by them, things are quite out of joint : Prov. xx. 26, " A righteous man falling down before the wicked, is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring." Sometimes one wicked man makes many hundreds, yea thousands, of precious saints a sacrifice to his... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...So saith Salomon, Fans turbatus,et vena corrupta,estJustus cadens in causa sua cor am adversario : [A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain or a corrupt spring.] The office of judges may have reference unto the parties that sue, unto the advocates... | |
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