...human nature1? Is it pure, dignified, and naturally virtuous, as some suppose ? Alas.1 no. "Lo, this have I found, that God made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions."t Man was created after the image * Psalm xxxix. 4, 5, & xc. 12. f E'"1!. vii. 29. of God...

...great degeneracy of mankind, says : " This have I found," of this I see reason to be fully satisfied, " that God made man upright : but they have sought out many inventions," Ecc. vii. 29. I{. We are here led to observe the dignity of the human nature, which is so set before...

...Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account : 28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not : one man among a thousand have I found ; but a woman among all those have I not found. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have...

...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 those have I not found ;" that is, among his courtiers and flatterers, one man, perhaps among a thousand,...

...Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account ; 28 Which yet my soul seeketb, but 1 find not : one hall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city those have I not found. , 29 Lo, this oply have I found, that WW hath made man upright ; but they bav«...

...3. 10. Put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph. 4.24. Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright ; but. they have sought out many inventions. Eccles. 7. 29. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin ; and so death...

...with which the verse commences, as a pronoun relative referring to that which follows, namely, " one man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all these have I not found." Here the terms " man" and " woman" seem to be used, in an emphatical sense, for those who, by their...

...soul seeketh, but I find not ; one roan among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found. Lo this only have I found, that...upright ; but they have sought out many inventions' to gratify his vanity, and his fondness for pomp and pleasure, whereof his idols were the most flagrant...

...flaming sword, which turned every waif, to keep the way of the tree of lye. Ecclesiastes; vii. 28. One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. Mission to Hayli.—Ou the llth °f Oct. Rev. Win. G. Penning*°n< a coloured...

...in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety."} Without intending to contradict Solomon, " One man "among a thousand have I found; but a woman among " all those have I not found, "|| I would observe, that as the woman was first and more readily tempted to...