| Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 páginas
...What is this that thou hail done ? And the woman fajd, The ferpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Eccl. vii. 29. Lo this only have I found, that God made man upright : but they have fought out many inventions. 2 Cor. xi. 3. But I fear lead by any means, as the ferpent beguiled Eve... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1765 - 298 páginas
...experience, the vanity of them all. Their flate is juftly defcribed by the wife man, when he fays, " Lo this only have " I found, that God made man upright, but " they have fought out many inventions *." It may not be improper here, juft to hint at a few of the principal... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1766 - 506 páginas
...another Part of the holy Scripture. A very clear Text. for original Righteoufnefs is that in Ecclef. vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God made Man upright ; but they have fought out many Inventions, It is an Obfervation of no Weight which 2". makes on this Text, that the... | |
| John Flavel - 1770 - 488 páginas
...both as to foul and body ; yet then he brake ov«r the hedge of the command, and wenta./tray, £eclef. vii. 29. " Lo, this only have I found, that God " made man upright, but he fought out to himfelf many in*< vemions :" He was not content aud fatisfied with that blefVOL. VI.... | |
| John Owen - 1798 - 476 páginas
...naked? Haft thou eaten of the * tree whereof l commanded thee, that thou * fhouldft not eat?' Ecclef. vii. ~29. ' Lo, .* this only have I found, that God made man * upright, but he hath fought out many inven' dons.' Rom. v. 12. * Wherefore as by one * man fin entered into the... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 684 páginas
...both as to foul and body ^ yet then he brake over the hedge of the command, and went aftray, Ecclef. vii. 29. " Lo, this only have I " found, that God made man upright, but he fought out to himfelf " many inventions :" He was not content and fatisfied with that blefled ftate... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 páginas
...could depend ; but not one among his thousand wives and concubines ! — " But this only," saith he, "have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." This he was sure of. He had no doubt respecting this; and to this apostacy of man he traces up the... | |
| John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 636 páginas
...experience, the vanity of them all. Their ftate is juftly defcribed by the wife man, when he fays, " Lo this only " have I found, that God made man upright, but they " have fought out many inventions."* It may not be improper here, juft to hint at a few of the principal purfuits... | |
| John Smalley - 1803 - 454 páginas
...and women, to find out their true character, and the cause of their so universal depravity, says ; " Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions." Wicked practices, and deceitful inventions to conceal their criminality, are ever ascribed in scripture... | |
| Jacob Rush - 1804 - 198 páginas
...COUKTY, NOV. 1802.] f *"~ Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, JT is the unerring declaration of holy writ, that " GOD made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions"* Ever since the disobedience and apostacy of our first parents, his imagination has been unremittingly... | |
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