...aviary that continually cry for bread. It teaches them to imitate those saints on the pension list that are like the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither...like Solomon in all his glory In fine, it teaches a lesson, which indeed they might have learned from Epictetus, that it is sometimes good not to be...

...known, is related to have heen f-poken hy Jesus Christ, as a remedy against distrustful cure. " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." This, however, is far inferior to the allusions in Joh, and in the 10th Psalm; hut it is similar in...

...feerieth them : art thon not much better than they ? And why takest thou thought for raiment ? consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. And shall he not much more clothe...

...them to imitate those samts on the pension list, that are like the lilies of the field — iney tod not, neither do they spin, and yet are arrayed like Solomon in his glory. In fine, it teaches a lesson, which indeed they might have learned from Epictetus — that...

...side, and even our Saviour himself gives it the weight and the solemnity of his example. «« Behold the lilies of the field ; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them." He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower, and draws...

...known, is related to have been spoken by Jesus Christ as a remedy against distrustful care. " Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin." This however is far inferior to the allusions in Job, and the nineteenth Psalm ; but it is similar...

...herself iii.it she may be exalted. But the lessons it inculcates form its greatest perfection. Itteacheth that sloth and vice may eat that bread which virtue...yet are arrayed like Solomon in all his glory. ' In fine.it teaches men a lesson which indeed they might have learned from Epictetus ; that it is sometimes...

...earned it. It teaches the idle and dissolute to look up for that support which they are too proud so stoop and earn. It directs the minds of men to an...fine, it teaches men a lesson which indeed they might bave learned from Epictetus; that it is sometimes good not to be over virtuous. It shows that in proportion...

...on its side, and even our Saviour Himself gives the weight and the solemnity of His example. 'Behold the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenly Father careth for them.' He expatiates on the beauty of a single flower, and draws...

...admit a woman;* others excluded the fair sex on the strength of a passage in scripture : " Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin ; " thence it was concluded that females, who ought to spin, ought not to reign in the kingdom of the...