| John Wilkins (bp. of Chester.) - 1704 - 472 pages
...conceive the Preacher alludes, Ecclef. 7. i. where he fays, A good name u better than freclous oyntment, and the day of ones death than the day of ones birth....goes out with this publick teftimony. After which the Jews never mentioned fuch perfons without a bleffing on their memory. But above all others, the Primitive... | |
| John Scott - Sermons, English - 1704 - 510 pages
...the Text^ I fhall not trouble you with any account of the Connexion between thefe two Comparifons, A good name is better than precious ointment ; and 'the day of Death is better than the day 'of ones Birth : The latter of which I have chofen for the Subject of... | |
| John Wilkins (bp. of Chester.) - 1734 - 422 pages
...alfo were publickly burnt at the Interment. To which I conceive the Preacher alludes, Rcclef.j. r, where he fays, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth.When one cometh into the World, none knows how he may prove... | |
| Francis Atterbury - Sermons, English - 1774 - 270 pages
...fleered and governed. In the firft verfe of this chapter (the verfe before the text) he tells us, that " a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth. A good name is "be to- than precious ointment ;" . e. rich... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...he fpendeth as a fhadow ? for who can tell a man what fhalll)^ after him under the fun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 522 pages
...accounts it is, I doubt not, that the day of death is preferable before the day of one's birth : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," Eccles. vii. 1. On tlie same accounts, I do not question, Paul... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...vanity, are a good name, 2 mortification, 7 patience, 1 1 wisdom. '13 The difficulty of getting aisdom. A Good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 ^f -ft is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...vanity, are a good name, ^mortification, 7/iaticnce, llwudom. 23 The difficulty qf getting wisdom. Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, death than the day of one's birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he... | |
| Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...subjoins in the close of the chapter, namely, the bitterness of an insnaring woman, ver. 25 — 29. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Or, " A name is good before good ointment." A name, for a good name... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? CHAP. VII. A Good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
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