 | 1858 - 798 pages
...virtue.' "And William felt much ashamed, remembering in part his dream. " 'Yes,' said Dame Elizabeth, 'prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New!' ' ' ' Eight, Bess, right ! and it carrieth the greater benediction and the dearer revelation of God's... | |
 | Ireland - 1858 - 770 pages
...virtue. ' "And William felt much ashamed, remembering in part his dream. " 'Yes,' said Dame Elizabeth, 'prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New I' " ' Right, Bess, right ! and it carrieth the greater benediction and the dearer revelation of God's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...of adversity is fortitude, which In morals Is the more hcrolcal virtue. Prosperity Is the blesulng of the Old Testament, Adversity is the blessing of the New, which earrieth the greater benediction, and the clearvi revelation of God'* tuvor. Yet even In the OU Testament,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity...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... | |
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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. 
