| 1611 - 360 pages
...I find not : one man among a thousand have I found ; but a woman among all those have I not found. Lo, this •only have I found, that God hath made man upright; ibut they have sought out many inventions. WHO is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation... | |
| Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...v. 12. And the law is npt of faith : but, The man that doth them, ihall live in them. Eccl. rii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright: but they have fought out many inventions. Job. zxviii. 28. And unto man he faid, Behold the fear of the Lord, that... | |
| Thomas Amory - Presbyterian Church - 1766 - 602 pages
...in revelation. Solomcn mentions this as the refult of his confideration of this perplexing affair. * Lo this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have fought out many inventions. And thus his infpired Father encourages the fincerely pious and virtuous,... | |
| John Flavel - Westminster Assembly - 1767 - 268 pages
...Though he was upright, yet his Will was mutable ; and by abufing that Liberty, he fell, Ecclef. vii. 29. Lo this only have I found, that God hath made Man upright, but they have fought out many Inventions. Q. 3. How did God leave him to abufe the Freedom of WilTr A. Not by inclining... | |
| Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...witnefs, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or elfe excufmg one another. /"Eccl. vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man. upright, bat they have fought out miny inventions. / Gen. i. 28- And coil Meifed them, and cod faid unto them,... | |
| David Durell - Bible - 1772 - 326 pages
...it denotes that the Verb Subftantive nVJl is underftood. %u. ought not we to read nSnpn ION ? V. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made Man upright : but they have fought out many Inventions. IBM 'HNi'D nr n&n 1^7 "iJl 1t^ D1NH ntf D'nSnn n»V ] Rather, I think,... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...find not : one man among a thoufand have I found ; but a woman among all thofe have. I not found. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man .upright ; but they have fought out many inventions. . ...CHAP. VIU,'. ', WHO .is as the wife man ? and who knoweth the interpretation... | |
| John Hey - Emotions - 1801 - 278 pages
...passion are to be considered as the work of man: according to what is said in the Book of Ecclesiastes, " God hath made man " upright; but they have sought out many inventions". Eccles. vii. 29. That these bad effects are considered as avoidable, appears from our being ordered... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. For all this I considered in my heart oven to declare all this, that the righteous and the wise, and... | |
| Joanna Southcott - Prophecies - 1804 - 606 pages
...speeaily, therefore the heart of the sons of fnen is fully set in them to do evil. Chap. vii. 2Q — Lo, this only have I found, that. God hath made man...upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Ver. 8 — Better is the end of a 'tiling than the beginning thereof : and the patient in spirit is... | |
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