...the reader to a truth that is to be understood. Thus, how is it that Solomon says, There tsEco. 3, nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink; ' and adds not long after, It is better to go to the house qf'Ece. 1, mourning than to the house of feasting?...

...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 H p trol and restraint of conscience and the law of God ; that he 10 should make his soul enjoy good in his » Chap. i. 3 ; iii. 9. ° Job v. 7 ; xiv. 1. 1 Chap....

...— A very celebrated orthodox clergyman took for his text to a thanksgiving discourse, Eccl. 2: 24: "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I nw, that it •wan from the hand...

...outlandish women was no place to look for a virilf<nu wife, a confiding and faithful botom companion. nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." Chap. 2: 15, 24. When he " considered all the...

...outlandish women was no place to look for a riitu out wife, a confiding and faithful bosom companion. nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." Chap. 2: 15,24. When he " considered all the...

...great and singular merit ! Long before the son of Sirach, Solomon had 516 spoken to the same effect : " there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in its labour. This also I saw that it was from the hand of...

...the chastisement it would inflict. From the stores of his reflective wisdom the Sapient Solomon said, e, That Judgeth me, is The LORD. Therefore judge nothing before the time that he should make his Soul enjoy good in his labour ; this also I saw, that it was from the Hand...

...man the world ever knew. After taking his testimony, we shall suffer Mr. Paley to rest in peace. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor, all the days of his life, which God giveth him, for it is his portion...

...whenever it is spoken, want its admirers: it will have the applause of numbers, whose opinion it is, that " there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat, and drink, and enjoy himself, all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." 19. He shall go to the...

...the foundation of sin ? or that his marrying a wife should unkolder his conjunction with Christ? But there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labour, Eccl. ii. 24. And doth not St. Paul call the forbidding of meats...