 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 542 pages
...be born, than to be born to live only in such a world. Eccles. iv. at the beginning. " So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under...no comforter. Wherefore, I praised the dead, which were already dead, more than the living, whi%h are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 524 pages
...be born, than to be born to live only in such a world. Eccles. iv. at the beginning. " So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under...no comforter. Wherefore, I praised the dead, which were already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...o/tfiression, 4.by envy, 5 by idleness, 7 byc'ivetx, 9 by sotiiariness, 13 by ivil/ulSO I returned , your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, firty oppressor there ivan poww ; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already... | |
 | William Huntington - 1809 - 592 pages
...vi. 9, 10- ., ((, Solomon complains of this sin, of this evident token of perdition. " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...as were oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and pn the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter; wherefore I praised the... | |
 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 pages
...hence learn to praise the dead that die in the Lord, Rev. xiv. 13. I allude to the word in Eccl. iv. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead -which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Christ will have them where he is, that they may behold his glory ; and when he calls and takes... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...root of all evil." Solomon complains of this sin, of this evident token of perditkm. " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...they had no comforter; wherefore I praised the dead more than the living," Eccl. iv. 1, 2. The oppressed here is in the same state of the oppressor; that... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...preaching has been in vain, and that his Christian's faith is vain; like people, like priest: "So I beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had...they had no comforter: wherefore I praised the dead more than the living," Eccl. iv. 1, 2. Quot. Those who have experienced very uncommon manifestations... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...16. 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun : and hehold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had...oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. " So I returned, and considered," ie considered again : the verb is put for the adverb, as is usual... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 496 pages
...occasions. The first was, when appointed to preach queen Mary's funeral sermon, or oration. His text was, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive," Eccles. iv. 2. In this sermon, after exhausting his powers of oratory in celebrating his saint... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 pages
...next instead of the king,* chap. iv. 15. Then the strong oppressed the weak. I considered all t/ie oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold,...the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforters, and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. * The sense... | |
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So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun : and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. 
