 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...contradict what he elsewhere asserts, that while God giveth sore travail to the sinner, he giveth to the man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy. * It may, it must indeed, be admitted, that unmixed and complete happiness is unknown on earth. No... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...the whole, is the best. — While to the sinner he giveth sore travail, to gather and to heap up ; he giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and Imowkdge, and joy.* * Eccles,. ii. 26. HAVING ascertained the sense in which we are to understand the... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...gladness is ordinarily given to him that is good in his sight ; but to the sinner he giveth travel, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God*. If a Christian has but little, it is pleasant to him ; because he considers it as the gift of his heavenly... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...which a mind disposed to do the will of God cannot fail to receive by the study of the scriptures. God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge ; and may God grant that the eyes of our understanding being enlightened, we may understand what is the excellency... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...only reaped from them mortification and disgust. Such indulgences, being criminal, are delusive, for [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight,...that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This gratification of sense also [is] vanity in regard to the Chief Good, and rather produces vexation... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...frequently noxious to the possessor : United with them, it rises into a real blessing bestowed by God upon man. God giveth to a man that is good in his sight,...and knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he giveth sore travail, to gather, and to heap up, tliat he may give to him that is good before God.* ALLOW me... | |
 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...Boretet in the Gulf of Popaya, sixteen miles; making the total line 253 miles. TRUE GOODNESS. " For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy." — ECCLES. ii. 26. " A MAN that is good in the sight of God," is a character of great extent: goodness... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...a man that is good in hi* sight, ivisdom, and knowledge, and joy ; but to the sinner he giveth sore travail, to gather, and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good be/ore God.* ALLOW me now to conclude the subject, with representing te the prosperous men of the world,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 650
...gave themselves " over to lusts, God gave them over to strong delusions, and .to believe a lie1." But "God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy, "said the wise Preacher". But this is most expressly promised in the New Testament, and particularly... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 1004
...the audience on each occasion, in the very words of Scripture: "We see to-day, how true it is that ' God giveth to a man that is good in His sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy.' " ' The band of earnest and happy workers at Westminster was not permitted to be long unbroken. In... | |
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For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. 
