 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 662 pages
...born, than to be born to live only in such a world. Eccles. iv. at the beginning : " So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressed, and they had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore, I praised the dead, which... | |
 | Baptists - 1854 - 310 pages
...sorrow ; and now Solomon comes along, and he says, " I returned and I considered all the oppressions done under 'the sun ; and behold the tears of such...and they had no comforter : and on the side of the oppressor there was power ; but the poor oppressed saint had no comforter." How just a picture is this... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...in his journals such entries as these : " So I returned and considered all the oppressions that were done under the sun, and behold the tears of such as...oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter." "He that is higher than the highest regardeth,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 740 pages
...judgment, that ivickcdness was títere ; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there : I considered all the oppressions that are done under...sun ; and behold the tears of such as were oppressed : on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter :•' so did Job also... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Future punishment - 1846 - 220 pages
...then proceeded on the following Scriptures as its foundation : Eccl. iv. 1, 2, — " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are... | |
 | 1847 - 1026 pages
...nppretfifm, 4 bit envy, 5 by vUene**t 1 by cotretousnest, 9 by avlitarineM, 13 by wijfulnejs. SO I returned, , their oppressors there wat power ; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1848 - 394 pages
...recorded in Ecclesiastes seem to be direct to our present subject, "So I turned, and considered ail the oppressions that are done under the sun ; and,...oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppresors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1851 - 344 pages
...more in these touching words of the book of God : " So I returned, and cousidered all the oppressious that are done under the sun : and behold the tears...oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter." So broadly is the seal of prophetic truth... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...happiness, by reason of the imperfections in men themselves. — Ch. 4 : 1 — 8. 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...and on the side of the oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. * Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...true happiness, by reason of the imperfections in men themselves.—Ch. 4 : 1—8. 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...and on the side of the oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. * Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more thau the living... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 
