 | Whittington Henry Landon - Sermons, English - 1835 - 198 pages
...carefulness, yet so God giveth his beloved sleep :" and it is written, " the sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." We may, indeed, envy the lot of others, who are higher and richer than we are, and from knowing every... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 pages
...owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 1 2. The sleep of a labouring man is will I establish my covenant ; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons him'to sleep. 1 3. There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 pages
...give it, for those who have most of the world have generally least peace and satisfaction of mind: " The abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." The law cannot give it, for it is a ministration of wrath and condemnation, and not of peace ; it passes... | |
 | William Giles - Marriage - 1836 - 172 pages
...happy in the possession of his scrip, as the monarch in his crown ! The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep : and if the labourer toil hard for the meat that perisheth, he has, in the midst of every want, if... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes ? The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely riches kept for the owners thereof to... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...them render him miserable and you may sometimes repeat the texts, " The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep " — " Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith." Let... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...in the night. This is also vanity. Ps. cxxvii. 2. (3) Eccl. v. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 2 Thess. iii. 10, 12. (4) Eccl. iii. 4.— A time to mourn, and a time to dance. (5) 1 Cor. xiii. 4,... | |
 | 1842 - 268 pages
...whose daily toil is their daily sustenance. " The sleep of a labouring man is sweet," said Solomon, " whether he eat little or much ; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep." These facts of our text, however, though immediately concerning the mortal, are yet intimately connected... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...12 the beholding if them и ith their eyes Í The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he cat 13 to sleep. There is a, sore evil which 1 have seen under the sun, namely ', riches 14 kept (or the... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1839 - 338 pages
...them render him miserable, and you may sometimes repeat the texts, " The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep," Eccles. v. 12.—" Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith,"... | |
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The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 
