...upon that which is not ? For riches certainly make themselves wings : they fly away. Prov. xxiii. 4. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith. Prov. xv. 16. CONCLUSION. IN bringing this memoir to a conclusion, it would be very appropriate to...

...bring you more comfort, than if all their store were cast into one heap, and bestowed upon you. So, " Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith" (Prov. xv. 16). These are principles that are only relished by men of a mortified arid contented mind....

...leaf, forms the basis or but-end of the present publication. hoarded heaps, know not that " Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith," — or wasting themselves and substance in riot and intemperance, forget how far sweeter is " a dinner...

...three meet again?' Little did I anticipate such a change in my prospects ; but God's will be done. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great riches without right. Perhaps I estimated money as a means of usefulness, above its real importance,...

...himself rich, and yet hath nothing ; there is that maketh himself poor, and yet hath great riches. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasures and trouble therewith. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end...

...Edmund was taught to believe that " Godliness with contentment is great gain;" and that "Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and . trouble therewith," 1 Tim. vi. 6 ; Prov. xv. 16. Many pitied him when his worldly friends fell away, and said, " This is...

...food and raiment, let us be therewith content. (Read on to verse 20.) Prov. xv. 16, 17.—Better is little, with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith. Heb. xiii. 5.—Let...

...supplieth all our wants. (1 Tim. iv. 8. Psalm xxxiv. 10. xxxvii. ltj. Matt. vi. 33. Prov. xv. 16.) Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures and trouble therewith. 2. The consideration of God's providence ; who is our provident and...

...to repair it. Neither let the pretence of impoverishing our heirs obstruct these pious purposes, for better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great revenues without right, Prov. xvi. 8. The curse which follows what is ill-gotten will eat out all the...

...Edmund was taught to believe that " Godliness with contentment is great gain ;" and that " Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith," 1 Tim. vi. 6 ; Prov. xv. 16. Many pitied him when his worldly friends fell away, and said, " This is...