Torrey's Topical Textbook
Psalm 39:6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
Torrey's Topical TextbookEcclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither said he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a sore travail.
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Of the Stink of Lechery and the Peril of Touching: and of the ...
... it is shown that he was strongly bound with a foul band of feeble vanity. ... and dry,
it alway increases its heat; and from the fire of covetousness kindles the ...
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He.
... [5170] ...If therefore our heart be not inclined to covetousness, we fear God ... to
expound are, "O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity: and quicken Thou ...
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The Tenth Commandment
... Solomon had put all the creatures in a retort, and distilled out their essence,
and behold, All was vanity.' Ecclesiastes 2:11. Covetousness is a dry dropsy ...
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That God's Lover Forsakes the World, Idleness and Irksomeness: and ...
... that they have so great thought that all this world is but vanity, that, as ... lying
in wait, in as mickle as they are aware; and hiding covetousness under the ...
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Tenth Commandment
... Aren't they vanity? Does he have peace of mind? Don't selfish riches always bring
hurt? The folly of covetousness is well shown in the following extract: "If ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/weighed and wanting/tenth commandment.htm
The Image of the Earthly and the Heavenly
... so that a man has no pre-eminence over a beast; for all is vanity. ... We do not care
to spend our time in eating and drinking, mean covetousness, ambition, and ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon x the image of.htm
The Pure in Heart
... of them, from thinking about oneself; from lusting and longing after this and that;
from spite, vanity, bad temper, wounded pride, disappointed covetousness? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xvi the pure in.htm
Ananias and Sapphira.
... back part of the price of the land?" His crime is traced to the instigation of Satan,
who had filled his heart with vanity, covetousness, dissimulation, and an ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture vi ananias and sapphira.htm
Of the Despising of the World
... The more covetousness, the less charity. ... of this life; death sicker; the chance of
death unsicker; the stableness of everlastingness and the vanity of things ...
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Wandering Thoughts
... 2. The case is the same in other instances: Pride, anger, revenge, vanity, lust,
covetousness, every one of them occasions thoughts suitable to its own nature. ...
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