 | 1611 - 360 pages
...portion : for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him ? So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun : and behold...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... | |
 | Simeon Ashe - Fast-day sermons - 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 - God - 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 - Baptists - 1773 - 678 pages
...Occafioned by the Death of the Reverend Mr JAMES FALL. Ее с L ES. IV. г. 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 - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...••— Vengeance is mine ^ I will re/iay, saith the Lord, • OOLOMON says, " I considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun : and, behold,...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 - Presbyterian Church - 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 which 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... | |
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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. 
