...nourished and strengthened? Ah, Margaret! desire not beauty, for it is vain, but seek rather the ornament of a " meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price."* Confess to God the sinfulness of your heart ; look with faith to Jesus Christ his Son ; and ask for...

...Thus barkening to the voice of God, his purpose was accomplished, and, in the end, he acquired that meek, and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price. Oh that there were the same watchfulness, against our easily besetting sin, in us all! As a scholar,...

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...Samuel ; by Elizabeth, the mother of John ; and by Mary, the mother of Jesus. It is " the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price." It is the respect and esteem of mankind. It is that silent, unobserved, unobtrusive influence, by which...

...the apostle, I Peter iii. 3, 4. Whose adorning let it not be thai of plotting the hair, out a meet and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. CHAP. IV. 2, to the end. CHAP. V. 1—8. JÍfter the prophecy of the calamities of Tura e I, Isaiah...

...inculcates the weightier matters of the law, faith, judgment, and mercy, it neglects not the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. All that refinement which polishes the mind ; all that gentleness of manners which sweetens the intercourse...

...humble my self under Thy Mighty Hand, " and be clothed xith Humility (d) : decked with'Me Or" nament of a meek and quiet Spirit, which in the Sight of " GOD is of great Price (e) ! May I bo pure in Heart, " that I may see GOD (f) ; mortifying my Members Khich . " are on the...

...husband, father, brother, and friend, he was uniformly kind. In a high degree he possessed "the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price." But in whatever esteem he was held by his fellow men, he cherished humble views of himself, and often...

...of putting on apparel ; but let it be the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which \ in the sight of God is of great price. 5 For thus the holy women also, who trusted in God, formerly adorned themselves, being subject to their...