| Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 582 pages
...ii. 15. vi. 8. ii. 16. i. 8. vii. 25. i. 18. Lastly, not in any human thing: for I have considered all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ec. i. 14. SECT. 6. Wherein Felicity is: j [-Life, 1. In approving ourselves^ CFavour, to God. From... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 586 pages
...ii. 15. vi. 8. ii. 16. i. 8. vii. 25. i. 18. Lastly, not in any human thing : for / have considered all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ec. i. 14. SECT. 6. TLife, Wherein Felicity is : I 1. In approving ourselves •< f Favour, to God.... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...be hereafter, shall be so forgotten of our succeeding posterity, as if they had never been. I. 15. That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. That, which is crooked and perverse, cannot by any human means be rectified and reformed : only the... | |
| Henry Martyn - 1837 - 424 pages
...deformity in the most perfect, something wanting, and there is no hope of its ever being otherwise, " That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered." So that the expectation of happiness on earth seems chimerical to the last degree. In my schemes of... | |
| Henry Martyn - 1837 - 426 pages
...deformity in the most perfect, something wanting, and there is no hope of its ever being otherwise, " That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered." So that the expectation of happiness on earth seems chimerical to the last degree. In my schemes of... | |
| 1839 - 650 pages
...this," and has undone the good work which the mighty Parent had pronounced to be very good. " I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." And all the works that are done under the sun are done by man only, and yet God " created man in his... | |
| Edward Bury - Meditation between God and man - 1838 - 192 pages
...disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them, Psa. xxxix. 6. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit, Eccl. i. 14. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and... | |
| 1838 - 1196 pages
...heaven : — this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man ' to be exercised therewith. 14 I have , let the people from their 5 works ? get you unto your burdens. An 15 vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: J6 and 4 that which... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Congregational churches - 1839 - 486 pages
.......... 265 SERMON XXII. The disappointments and uncertainties of life. ECCLESIASTES i. 14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit ....... 281 OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES. On the death of Governor James Sullivan . . 897 On the death of... | |
| Henry Martyn - Bengal (India) - 1839 - 928 pages
...deformity ; in the most perfect something is wanting, and there is no hope of its ever being otherwise, " That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.'' So that the expectation of happiness on earth seems chimerical to the last degree. In my schemes of... | |
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