ABOUND—ABUNDANCE.
The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.—Exodus, xxxiv. 6.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.—Proverbs, xxviii. 20.
Therefore as ye abound in every thing, in faith and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.—II. Corinthians, viii. 7.
We beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.—I. Thessalonians, iv. 1.
Unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.—Ephesians, iii. 20.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—Matthew, xii. 34.
God on thee
Abundantly his gifts hath also poured,
Inward and outward both.
Milton.
Good the more
Communicated, more abundant grows;
The author not impaired but honoured more.
Milton.
The God of Nature and of Grace
In all his works appears;
His goodness through the earth we trace,
His grandeur in the spheres.
Behold this fair and fertile globe,
By Him in wisdom planned;
’Twas He who girded, like a robe,
The ocean round the land.
His blessings fall in plenteous showers
Upon the lap of earth,
That teems with foliage, fruit, and flowers,
And rings with infant mirth.
If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound;
How beautiful beyond compare
Will Paradise be found!
J. Montgomery.