 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 518 pages
...the causes and effects of vanity, brings it under this head ; ' Lo this only have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions ;' Eccles. vii. 29. For hereby our minds that were created in VOL. XIII. ' 2 A a state of blessed adherence unto God, were... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 548 pages
...had made, and behold it was very good ;' ver. 31. ' In the image of God made he man ;' Gen. ix. 6. 'Lo! this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ;' Eccles. vii. 29. ' Put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and holiness;'... | |
 | Robert Wilson (A.M.) - Election (Doctrine of)s - 1826 - 236 pages
...IN THE PLAN OF HUMAN REDEMPTION, ACCORDING TO THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE. THE wise man assures us, that " God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions,'Eccl. vii. 29. His belief in the former . proposition was grounded on the testimony of... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...find not : one man among a thousand have 1 found ; but a woman among all those have 1 not found. 20 CHAP. VIII. WHO it as the wise manf and who knowelh the interpretation of a thing ? a man's wisdom... | |
 | William Cogswell - Families - 1827 - 558 pages
...clearest light, and the most powerful motives, being unthankful and discontented, believ(a) Eccl. 7. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright; but they have sought out many inventions. (b) Gen. 3. 6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...them. And the law is not ol" faith: but, The man that doth them shall live in them. Eccl. vii. 2!). Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. Job xxviii. SK. And unto mait he said, Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to depart... | |
 | Henry Ware, American Unitarian Association - Faith - 1827 - 512 pages
...ISAAC R. BUTTS AND CO. 1826. Price 6 Centi. DISCOURSE ECCLESIASTES Til. 29. to .' this only have J found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. IT is obvious that the term " man" occurs here in its generic sense, denoting the race collectively.... | |
 | John Mackenzie (of Huntingdon.) - Reformation - 1827 - 336 pages
...alone. This the Scriptures particularly inculcate : ' Lo, this only have I found,' says the preacher, ' that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inrentions.' From whence it appears clearly, that it is to man alone that his ruin must be imputed,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 548 pages
...workmanship, created anew in Christ Jesus. The other text which you reconsider is Eccles. vii. 29, 'God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions.' " But this, you say, does not mean, that God made man righteous ; but that lie made him right, as having... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...weapons of rebellion against our Benefactor? Or will you affirm that we thus came from our Maker's hand? "Lo! this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright ; but they have sought out many inventions." There is one case in which prosperity is peculiarly perilous — when it is not hereditary, but acquired;... | |
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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. 
