 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...deprive themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoice, and to... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 630 pages
...deprive themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoice, and to... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to cat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoice, and to... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...Solomon, and substantially under other forms. Thus he says, Eccles. ii. 24, " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God." And again, Eccles. v. 18, 19, " Behold, that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Christianity - 1831 - 240 pages
...dpunken principles. Something towards this signification is that of Solomon, " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...he. should make his soul enjoy good in his labour; for that is his portion : for who shall bring him to see that which shall be after him ?"* But although... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...recited that passage in the twenty-fourth verse of the second chapter — " 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 laior," as if it were designed to give loose reins to indulgence. And infidelity, as well as libertinism,... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the uighL This is also vanity. 24 If There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in bis labour. Tbii also I saw, that it was from Ihe hand of God. Whtt find duet it for ner. CHAP. Ill,... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 '; Then: is nothing better labour. A time for all things. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat,... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...pood tittups, so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. Ps. cm. 4, 5. There it nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that...make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also 1 saw, that it was from the hand of God : for who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto more than... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...life is no where forbidden : on the contrary, " there is," as Solomon informs us, " nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour." Doubtless this concession must be taken with certain restrictions ; for we are not to spend all our... | |
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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 labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 
