 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 Seiten
...hence learn to praise the dead that die in the Lord, Rev. xiv. 13. I allude to the word in Eccl. iv. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead -which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Christ will have them where he is, that they may behold his glory ; and when he calls and takes them,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 Seiten
...money is the root of all evil." Solomon complains of this sin, of this evident token of perditkm. " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions...they had no comforter; wherefore I praised the dead more than the living," Eccl. iv. 1, 2. The oppressed here is in the same state of the oppressor; that... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 Seiten
...preaching has been in vain, and that his Christian's faith is vain; like people, like priest: "So I beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had...they had no comforter: wherefore I praised the dead more than the living," Eccl. iv. 1, 2. Quot. Those who have experienced very uncommon manifestations... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 Seiten
...of the most regular authority, through the mutability of the affections of subjects, ver. 15, 16. 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun : and hehold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 484 Seiten
...much wisdom and equity, be in the miserable condition here described? The fourth chapter begins — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. — Returned! from whence ? From a contemplation of the natural state of things, (spoken of in the... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1811 - 32 Seiten
...Christian may escape, by an early removal from this region of uncertainty. The preacher once said, " wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the fiving which are yet alive." It may be so now. Our departed brother is at least delivered from an emaciating... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 496 Seiten
...occasions. The first was, when appointed to preach queen Mary's funeral sermon, or oration. His text was, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive," Eccles. iv. 2. In this sermon, after exhausting his powers of oratory in celebrating his saint of a... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 Seiten
...next instead of the king,* chap. iv. 15. Then the strong oppressed the weak. I considered all t/ie oppressions that are done under the 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. * The sense... | |
 | Abraham Booth - 1813 - 452 Seiten
...of Christ. A SERMON PREACHED IN LITTLE PRESCOT STREET, GOODMAN'S FIELDS, January 29, 179?. 8EIIOLD THE TEARS OF SUCH AS WERE OPPRESSED, AND THEY HAD NO COMFORTER; AND ON THE SIOE OF THEIR OPPRESSORS THERE WAS POWER; BUT THEY HAD NO COMFORTER. SOLOMON. REMEMBER, HEAVEN HAS... | |
 | 1863 - 904 Seiten
...their virtues shine forth with resplendent lustre. " Wherefore I praised the dead," said Solomon, " which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." . There is some danger in constructing eulogies on their persons, of giving indiscriminate praise,... | |
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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. 
