 | John Bunyan - 1795 - 638 pages
...5, f . do so too. It is with me, as it is with a weak man among the strong, or as a lamp despised. " He that " is ready to slip with his feet, is as a lamp despised in ** the thought of him that is at ease1 ;" so that I know not what to do. But, brother, said Mr. GREAT-HEART, I have it in commission... | |
 | Universalism - 1800 - 490 pages
...are often objects of derison and contempt to such as are of firmer nerves and stronger health. Thus " he that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised by him that is at ease." Some persons are naturally of a gay and airy temper; they know little of any... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...just upright [man is] laughed to scorn ; this is no new thing, 5 the best of men have been served so. He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a...lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease ; he who i« brought into afirecarioue ar.d perishing condition, though he formerly shone A"/Cr a lamfi,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 pages
...tamp despised. " lie that is ready to slip with his feet, is as 1 Luke x. 34, 35. 2 3d John, 5, 6. a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease ;"1 so that I know not what to do. But, brother, said Mr. Great-heart, I have it in commission to "... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1808 - 440 pages
...me, as it is with a weak man among the strong, or i as a lamp despised ( " he that is ready to sHp with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease"), (a) so that I kmnv not what to do. Great-heart. But, brother, said Mr. Great-heart, I have it in commission... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...neighbour, who caUeth upon God, and he answereth him. XII. 5 He that is ready to slip with hisfeet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. He that i< near to his ruin, as I now am, is, unto those that prosper and are at ease, like unto a... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...answer him. But this is no new thing, the best of men have been mocked at on this fashion. Ver. 5 . He that is ready to slip with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.^ Though he be as a lamp, yet they who are dazzled with the splendour of worldly prosperity despise him:... | |
 | Samuel Scott - Quakers - 1809 - 296 pages
...judged a deceiver; others may judge me to be a weak and unsteady man ; very unfit to teach others. "He that is ready to slip with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease :" but let such who possess fortitude and resignation, consider those who are swallowed... | |
 | Mary Waring - Experience (Religion) - 1809 - 576 pages
...judged a deceiver ; others may judge me to be a weak and unsteady man ; very unfit to teach others. " He that is ready to slip with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease :" but let such who possess fortitude and resignation, consider those who are swallowed... | |
 | Samuel Scott - Quakers - 1809 - 288 pages
...judged a deceiver ; others' may judge me to be a weak and unsteady man ; very unfit to teach others. " He that is ready to slip with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him who is at ease :" but let such who possess fortitude and resignation, consider those who are swallowed... | |
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He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. 
