 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 606 pages
...many warnings of the folly of thofe, who travel in the path of ambition, and put their truft in man. " Surely " men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree " are a lie. Put not your truft in princes, nor in the fou " of man, in whom there is no help. Happy is he that... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...another Psalm, to set forth the want of virtue in mankind of all orders and degrees, it is said, " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high...balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." In opposition to this, the lowest, weakest, poorest good man, is a man of weight ; that is, of solid... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...another Psalm, to set forth the want of virtue in mankind of all orders and degrees, it is said, " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid ia the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity." In opposition to this, the lowest, weakest,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1805 - 380 pages
...bay-tree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he teas not : I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie, to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity — / said, ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the most High : but ye shall die like men.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...soever, is mere vanity, and utterly deceitful in the irust that is put in them : let vanity be LXII. 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of...: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether' ligiiter than vanity. laid in one end of the scales, and man in another, man shall be found lighter... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...yourselves to God by earnest prayer, and implore his help ; for he will never fail us. Ver. 9. Surely men cf low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are a/together lighter than vanity.] But do not VOL. 111. " U place any confidence in man ; for as the... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...sanctuary : " All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord weigheth the spirits." " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance together they are altogether lighter than vanity," Psal. Ixii. 9. In short, all that have not Christ... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...himself under falsehood; and, by exalting fallen man, he brings the sinner to trust in another lie. " Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie." In exalting the freedom of man's will, the sufficiency of his own obedience, the power of his own arm,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 470 pages
...green baytree ; yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: I sought him, but he could not be found. Surely men of high degree are a lie ; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. — I said, ye are gods, and all of, you are children of the most High; but ye shall die like men.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...and wrangling through the world; of the repeated lesson of history and contemporary experience that " men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lie, to be weighed in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity ;" in the presence of all this, these... | |
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 
