 | Sarah Martin - 1799 - 152 pages
...ruin. Thus men " rob God " of time and life, and, seem to say, by the avidity with which they do it, that " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant;" not caring for what the end will be, as if the Lord cared not for the honour of his law, as if he saw... | |
 | Richard Graves - Bible - 1807 - 520 pages
...hell, going down " to the chambers of death." And again, when she saith to the dupe of her vice, " Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten "in secret is pleasant;" the Preacher adds, " But he knoweth not that the dead are " there, and that her guests are in the depth... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...I think this cannot be denied ; for daily observation evinceth, that it is a na•tural principle, that stolen waters are sweet, and bread •eaten in secret is pleasant, Prov, ix. 17. The very Heathens are convinced, that man was possessed with this spirit of contradiction,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1812 - 508 pages
...6. I think this cannot be denied ; for daily observation evinceth that it is a natural principle, " that stolen, waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." Prov. ix. 17. The very heathens were convinced, that man was possessed with this spirit of contradiction,... | |
 | 1822 - 276 pages
..." to continue in sin because we are not under the law, but under grace?" If Universalists maintain that "stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant;" if they say " the way of the transgressor is delightful, and there is great peace to men while abounding... | |
 | James Hogg - 1829 - 694 pages
...perhaps the more on two accounts, one of which she might probably deduce from the worda of the wise man, that " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant ;" but another most certainly was, that Gillies having opened her eyes to the true state of her father's... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 606 pages
...Nyers, this is seen and disregarded as a matter of perfect indifference. The reason of the proverb that ' stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant,' is that whatever is •habitually concealed inflames by its exposure ; and that whatever is habitually... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 612 pages
...Nyers, this is seen and disregarded as a matter of perfect indifference. The reason of the proverb that ' stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant,' is that whatever is habitually concealed inflames by its exposure ; and that whatever is habitually... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theological anthropology - 1830 - 588 pages
...children ? I think this cannot be denied; for daily observation evineeth, that it is a natural principle that " stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." The very heathens were convinced that man was possessed with this spirit of contradiction, though they... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Salvation - 1830 - 410 pages
...3, 6. I think this cannot be denied: for daily observation evinceth, that it is a natural principle, that "Stolen waters are sweet; and bread eaten in secret, is pleasant," Prov. ix. 17. The very Heathens are convinced that man was possessed with this spirit of contradiction,... | |
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... stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 
