Bible Encyclopedia: Riches: Cannot Secure Prosperity

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The First Season
... There are several helps to secure the heart from the ... many godly men have paid for
their riches; that through ... have lost that which all the world cannot purchase ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/i the first season.htm

The Care of the Soul Urged as the one Thing Needful
... be happy, without learning, without riches, without titles ... because, "without it you
cannot secure the peace ... indeed torment, but they cannot destroy themselves. ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the care of the soul.htm

Letter clxix. (AD 415. )
... must be worshipped in order to secure prosperity in this ... to pass, through the depths
of the riches of the ... are pronounced in human language they cannot be named ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter clxix a d 415.htm

The Great Gain of Godliness
... That beautiful phrase for a time of secure enjoyment of ... good which he had not asked,
'both riches and honour ... And we cannot assert that the New Testament order ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the great gain of godliness.htm

The Rich Fool.
... is as unsuccessful as it is unamiable: it cannot succeed ... He counts on riches and
time as if both were his own ... portion of the plan, how shall he secure the "many ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/xix the rich fool.htm

Naturally we Love Ourselves Only. ...
... the soul is in a far more secure state when ... nature: as, for example, in case of riches
and honours ... not as yet masters of their passions, cannot prevent them ...
/.../chapter iii naturally we love.htm

A Caution to the Presumptuous
... unless you use the greatest discernment you cannot tell the ... as a man who is heaping
up riches to a ... and vexed us every evening, we might have become too secure. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/a caution to the presumptuous.htm

Psalm XXXVII.
... of the last day, who will not be secure by living ... the question, and hadst said "Show
me the riches of that ... better than thou, since His eye anger cannot cloud. ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xxxvii.htm

The Rash Builder
... out to himself of what he means to secure by life ... and recognises the fact that he
cannot build, will go ... into our weakness, and His abundant riches lavished upon ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the rash builder.htm

Notes
... is presented"a people careless and secure: the Rod ... to early Hebrew thinkers: the
visible prosperity of the ... like will to like, and riches cannot consort with ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/notes.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Torrey's Topical Textbook