...he loved many strange wives, and therefore God gave him not one good one in all the thousand. " One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those [that I kept] have I not found. Lo ! this only have I found, that God made man upright," but...

...recollected thoughts which 1 have not yet given over, still pursuing the same penitent enquiry. — " One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have 1 not found." The intention of Solomon is not to condemn on<>sox rather than the other,...

...said also, that reform could be safelif conducted only in the establishment. It is divinely recorded, that " God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions." .Now it is these " inventions" which we apprehend in any reform conducted beyond the pale of the establishment....

...offer. I have found. I have discovered this certain truth, and assert it on the fullest evidence ; That God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. (p. 4.) .-i.-i. • i " The Hebrew word ~\vr<, which we render upright, is properly opposed to crooked,...

...things in the world, this alone he had found out, that is absolutely and unto his satisfaction ; namely, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions, Eccles. vii. 29. And the truth hereof we also find by woful ex» perience, not only in sundry particular...

...this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Eccl. vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. 2 Cor. xi. 3. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your...

...this that thou hast done ? And the woman •aid, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. Eed. 7. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright ; but they Jiave sought out many inventions. 2 Cor. 11. 3. But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled...

...relationships with the economy of heavenly life have been inverted. We may say then with the Preacher, — " Lo, this only have I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions " (Eccl. vii. 28). Hence, too, arises the necessity of Degeneration taught in the Scriptures — a...

...the men, to find out their true cliaracter, 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...

...found, saith the preacher, counting one by one to find out the account, but I find not: one man of a thousand have I found, but a woman among all these have I not found." Eccl. 7. 26, 27, 28. It is astonishing, that for a short dream of pleasure, men should despise heaven...