Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Small Books on Great Subjects - Page 311847Full view - About this book
| William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...contend." The following passage, first published in 1625, will show the extent of the change : — " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you will hear... | |
| Literature - 1857 - 240 pages
...may be a giant among dwarfs, and yet only a dwarf among giants. PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. PKOSPERITY is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even, in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean.1 The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue...benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs... | |
| Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 pages
...And, with an accent tun'd in selfsame key, Returns to chiding fortune.—Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like... | |
| English periodicals - 1878 - 1178 pages
...enemy or unfriendly ally. ' Prosperity,' says &con, 'was the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer Delation of God's favour.' The experience of the Order of St. John affords abundant confirmation of... | |
| Sean P. Kealy - Reference - 1987 - 262 pages
...prescriptions for happiness, than in any other sayings. The provocative statement of Francis Bacon that, while prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament adversity is the blessing of the New, is a convenient summary of the newness of Jesus' approach and his radical demands. In his classical... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...is the denomination of the New. Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683) Provost of King's College, Cambridge Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist It gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1990 - 356 pages
..."He had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." Luke 7:13 Bacon writing on adversity says, "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;...the New, which carrieth the greater benediction." But both sections of Scripture reveal a mixture of prosperity and adversity, with promises attached... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...BACON (1561- 1 626), English philosopher, essayist. statesman. Essays, "Of Adversity" 11597-1625). 2 iter. Perseus in the Wind, ch. 17(1948). 3 FRANCIS BACON (1S6I -1626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays. 'Of Adversity" {1 597-1... | |
| Heiko Schulz - Religion - 1994 - 640 pages
...oder Interessen" (ebd., 289). 4. Kapitel: Transsubstantiation des Leidens. Ein Exkurs zur Theodizee Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon Jedes Böse ist ein Übel, aber nicht jedes Übel böse - zumindest wenn man der Leibnizschen... | |
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