 | Simeon Ashe - 1642 - 80 pages
...the fide of t heir oppreffeurs there-s was power, but there was no Comforter. Wherefore I •praijed the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are jet alive. Many in this Kirgdome have dyed many deaths under the y ron hands of heavy opprtffours,... | |
 | John Piggott - 1714 - 554 pages
...ask, Is not this inconfiftent with what the Wife- Man ECC!. 4..i. has elfewhere advanc'd, in fraifmg the Dead. which are already dead^ more than the Living which are yet alive ? To this I return, that ) in one Paflage he has regard to the Troubles of Life, and in the other to... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1715 - 474 pages
...they have the Scripture on their fide. For the Wife Man, Eccl. 4. 2, 3. tells us, Wherefore I prtifcd the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive : Tea hetter is he than both they, who hath not yet heen, who hath not feen the evil work that is done... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...Comforter. This fo affected his Heart, that in the Bitternefs of his Concern he adds, Wherefore I praifed the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. But this feems to have been the Language of Paffion and Melancholy. A more juft and reafonable Conclufion... | |
 | John Gill - 1773 - 678 pages
...Occafioned by the Death of the Reverend Mr JAMES FALL. Åå ñ L ES. IV. ã. Wherefore I praifed tbe dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive, - - ------551 SERM. 34. Occafioned by the Death of Mrs ELIZABETH GILL. HEBREWS XI. 16. But now they... | |
 | William Belsham - 1791 - 312 pages
...vexation of fpirit, " and there was no profit under the fun! " Therefore I hated life, and I praifed the " dead which are already dead, more than the " living which are yet alive." He feems to place man's fupreme good in a kind- of ftoical apathy, a proud and contemptuous indifference... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...iv. 15. Then the strong oppressed the weak. / considered all the oppressions that are done under th-: 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. Then *... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...PUNISHMENT OF SIN. ROMANS XII. 19. — Vengeance is mine : I wiU re/iay, sait/i the Lord, OOLOMON says, " I considered all the oppressions that are done Under...oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter." Such instances, which are still often to be seen, are apt to excite our compassion and indignation... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 530 pages
...had confidered all the oppreA fions and fore evils done under the fun, he exclaimed, " I " praife'i the dead which are already dead, more than the " living which are yet alive ; yea, belter is he than both they, " which hath not yet been, who hath not feen the evil work " that is done... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...side of their oppressors [there was] power ; but they had no comforter : and this -VCT2 ed my spirit ; Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive ; I thought them in a better condition than those who suffer by o/ifiression, vihofear 3 it, or even... | |
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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. 
