 | Bible - 1828 - 108 pages
...righteousness, still To await the award of JEHOVAH'S high will. 72 THE FEAST AND THE FUNERAL. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting. For by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. — Eccl. vii. 2, 3. I VISITED the... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...tears, shall reap in joy: he thatgoeth forth and weepeth, &c.— Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6. 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. Sorrow is better than laughter... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1828 - 714 pages
...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 of feasting : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. I am the resurrection and... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 732 pages
...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 of feasting : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. I am the resurrection and... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - Sermons, American - 1828 - 424 pages
...need of nothing." The good old fashioned scripture is derided, which saith, " It is better to goto 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 heart." Sooner or later, however, they... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1829 - 250 pages
...laughter, " it is mad; and of mirth, what doth it?" Eccles. ii. 2. vii. 2 — 6. " 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. Sorrow is better then laughter;... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...midst of flattery and dissipation, to be reminded of the days of darkness. Yet " 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. The heart of the wise is... | |
 | John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...employments in which they engage, are of the most exalting and improving nature. " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting." || In their visits to such an abode, and in witnessing the miseries of the unhappy, the heart is softened... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 986 pages
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 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 606 pages
...therefore Solomon saith of such laughter, " it is mad, and of mirth, what doth it? — It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting ; for that is P Psal. Ixxxiv. 10. the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow... | |
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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. 
