| 1611 - 360 sivua
...soul seeketh, but I find not : one man among a thousand have I found ; but a woman among all those have I not found. Lo, this •only have I found, that God hath made man upright; ibut they have sought out many inventions. WHO is as the wise man? and who knoweth... | |
| 1848 - 744 sivua
...preacher, ' counting one by one to find out tin- account, which yet my soul secketh, but 1 find not. One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all these have I not found.' 'It is a bad thing,' said St. Augustine, ' to look upon a woman, a worse to speak to her, and to touch... | |
| Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 sivua
...this that thou hail done ? And the woman fajd, The ferpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Eccl. vii. 29. Lo this only have I found, that God made man upright : but they have fought out many inventions. 2 Cor. xi. 3. But I fear lead by any means, as the ferpent beguiled Eve... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1765 - 298 sivua
...experience, the vanity of them all. Their flate is juftly defcribed by the wife man, when he fays, " Lo this only have " I found, that God made man upright, but " they have fought out many inventions *." It may not be improper here, juft to hint at a few of the principal... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1766 - 506 sivua
...Part of the holy Scripture. A very clear Text. for original Righteoufnefs is that in Ecclef. vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God made Man upright ; but they have fought out many Inventions, It is an Obfervation of no Weight which 2". makes on this Text, that the... | |
| John Flavel - 1770 - 488 sivua
...foul and body ; yet then he brake ov«r the hedge of the command, and wenta./tray, £eclef. vii. 29. " Lo, this only have I found, that God " made man upright, but he fought out to himfelf many in*< vemions :" He was not content aud fatisfied with that blefVOL. VI.... | |
| John Owen - 1798 - 476 sivua
...thou eaten of the * tree whereof l commanded thee, that thou * fhouldft not eat?' Ecclef. vii. ~29. ' Lo, .* this only have I found, that God made man * upright, but he hath fought out many inven' dons.' Rom. v. 12. * Wherefore as by one * man fin entered into the... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 684 sivua
...foul and body ^ yet then he brake over the hedge of the command, and went aftray, Ecclef. vii. 29. " Lo, this only have I " found, that God made man upright, but he fought out to himfelf " many inventions :" He was not content and fatisfied with that blefled ftate... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 sivua
...perceived, however, the extreme folly of having so many wives and concubines ; and says (verse 28), "One man among a thousand have I found ; but a woman, among all these have I not found ;" that is, among his courtiers and flatterers, one man, perhaps, among a thousand he found on whom... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 636 sivua
...experience, the vanity of them all. Their ftate is juftly defcribed by the wife man, when he fays, " Lo this only " have I found, that God made man upright, but they " have fought out many inventions."* It may not be improper here, juft to hint at a few of the principal purfuits... | |
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