 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 pagina’s
...creation, Gen. i. 2. So that we may apply that to this case of mens inquiring after God, in Eccl. vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright: but they have siu$t out many inventions. A man can think of nothing, but in and by that thought there is some idea... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pagina’s
...is deceived and entangled, Hos. iv. 11 ; Judg. xvi. 17—21 ; Prov. vii. 21, 22. and v. 6. • 29, Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. " This only." He could not discover all the streams of wickedness and folly amongst men; but the original... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pagina’s
...him. The spouse informs us that it is the upright that love the Lord, Song i. 4 ; and Wisdom adds, " This only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions," Eccl. vii. 29. The Saviour . tells us, that love to God and our neighJbour is the grand hinge on which... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1811 - 296 pagina’s
...adduce your scripture, gentlemen, before you charge all these doctrines to the Holy Spirit. Arm. " Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man •upright." " 1 here is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding." Cal. and... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1812 - 478 pagina’s
...wipkedneft of folly, evfn of fooliJhnefs and madnefs ; and then declares the refult of all his inquiry, Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have fought out many inventions, Ecclef. vii. 25, 29. When he tells us, that there is not a juft man upon... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pagina’s
...wickednefs of folly, even of fooliJhnefs and madnefs ; and then declares the refult of all his inquiry, Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have fought ««/ many inventions, Ecclef. vii. 25, 29. When he tells us, that there is not a juft man upon... | |
 | John Owen - 1812 - 486 pagina’s
...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 instances,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pagina’s
..." ' . • " ',<, ii, .. .•:• :,. '. The other text which you re-consider is Eoclcs. vii. 29, ' God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.' " But this, you say, does not nieim, that God made man righteous : but that be made him right, at having-... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pagina’s
...them of us ? Ans. 1. God gave man this power, and he has lost it by his own fault, Eccl. vii. 29 ; * God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.' If a debtor squander away his substance, the creditor has still a right to require what he owes him... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 pagina’s
...general outline of its great truths which I now place before you in the very words of the book itself. " Lo this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright ; but they have sought out many inventions." — (Ecclesiastes 7th, 29th.) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."— (Romans... | |
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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. 
