 | 1611 - 360 pages
...comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1766 - 506 pages
...fere, I praifed the dead, which were already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Tea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been ; WHO HATH NO? SEZN THE EVIL WORK TH/ff IS DONE UNDER THE SUN. Surely it will not be faid that Solomon has only... | |
 | 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
...reason to doubt, whether it be the language of Solomon or the fool introduced in the book) J.pra ised the dead which are already dead, more than the living...better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, Eccjes. iv. 2, 3. To consider things as they usually are, whatever misfortunes attend life, mankind... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 524 pages
....Solomon had confidered all theoppreffions and fore evils done under the fun^ he exclaimed, " I " praifed the dead which are already dead, more than the " living...are yet alive ; yea, better is he than both they» " whick hath not yet been, who hath not feen the evil work " that is done under the fun." What fignifies... | |
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. 
