...HUMIL1TER ET DEVOTE DDD THE VANITY OF THE CREATURE. ECCLES. I. 14. / have seen all the works thai are dotte under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. OECTION 1. — To have a self-sufficiency in being and operation, and to be insubordinate to any further...

...have thus crooked, who can make straight? To the same sense the Wise Man speaks, chap. i. 14, 15. / have seen all the works that are done under the sun...behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight. Upon this consideration, the Preacher in my text exhorts...

...have thus crooked, who can make straight? To the same sense the Wise Man speaks, chap. i. 14, 15. / have seen all the works that are done under the sun...behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight. Upon this consideration, the Preacher in my text exhorts...

...under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, to be exercised therewith. 141 ays of his Hfe. H The First Book of CHAP. 1. it vanity and vexation of spirit. 16 That which it crooked cannot be made straight; and that which...

...done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 ou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. 16...

...not seen; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Eccles. i. 14.—I have seen all the things that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit Jerem. xv. 9.—She that hath born? "seven languisheth : she hath given up the ghost, her sun is gone...

...; no resting for |Ъв foot we find. « I have considered,« says Solomon, * all the works that are under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.« But who believes it, till Death tells it us? It ix Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself....

...made him and loves him, is always deferred : / have considered, saith Solomon, all the works that are under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit ; but who believes it, till Death tells it us ? It was Death, which opening the conscience of Charles...

...done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 a mother's •pi rit 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered....

...argues as an observer, when you notice the abundance of passages like the following (1 : 14) — " I have SEEN all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity." (3 : 16) — " I SAW under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the place...