 | Giovanni Battista Pagani - 1851 - 368 pages
...deeply and devotedly this faithful servant of God was beloved by all. Truly may it be said of him: " A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of the just man's death is better than the day of his birth." CCLX. In consideration of Father Gentili's... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1852 - 698 pages
...useful life. He had finished his course with joy. He was present with the Lord. He had obtained mercy. "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than thedayofone'sbirth." These thoughts were a cordial to her bleeding heart, and soothed her... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...ayainst vanity are. a yood name, 2 mortifieation, 7 paticnce, 1 1 wisdam. &\ The diffieulty of wisdom. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 If // is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to... | |
 | Harry Croswell - Clergy - 1854 - 550 pages
...fall asleep* In such a spirit the primitive Church received in earnest the proverb of the preacher — "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's hirth." t With sweet economy of faith, she made practical the separate... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1856 - 750 pages
...vanity are, a good name, 2 mortification, 7 patience, 1 1 wisdom. 23 The difficulty of getting wisdom. @ ` qy death than the day of one's birth. 2 If It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1857 - 858 pages
...The wicked- U driven away In his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope In his death. Ecclea.vtt, 1. s, to take out of them a people Cor his name. And to this ag death lhau the day of one's birth. Isa. Ivll, 1. The righteous perlsheth, and no man layeth It to heart;... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1857 - 860 pages
...The wicked is driven away la his wickedness; but the righteous hath hope In his death. Ecctef.vll, 1. fathers' sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without death than the day of one's birth. Isa. Ivil, 1, The righteous perishetb, and no man layeth it to heart;... | |
 | Public worship - 1858 - 328 pages
...where alone true joys are to be found, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PROPHECIES. ECCLESIASTES. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house... | |
 | Benjamin Weiss - Bible - 1858 - 352 pages
...earthly scenes and transactions shall have rolled into eternal forgetfulncss. (CHAPTER vn. VER. 1.) 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of his birth. The ointment so much used by the orientals in olden times, and which... | |
 | Israel Joseph Benjamin - Africa, North - 1859 - 362 pages
...customs from birth to death, I conclude with the words of Salomon, who says in Ecclesiastes c. VII, 1.2: ,,A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
