 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 568 pages
...company which doth cherish it. Little do they believe Solomon: (Eccles. vii. 2—4.) " 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... | |
 | 1830 - 614 pages
...pious Captain Arnold, or slept in a TWO-BEDDED ROOM. THE BLESSINGS OF AFFLICTION. " It ii better tn go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting." — Ecc, vii. 2. WHEN perplexed with the cares of this life, or disgusted with its frivolous pursuits,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Literature and medicine - 1831 - 392 pages
...Cushing & Sons. 1831. PREFACE, BY THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS. IT is one of the maxims of inspired wisdom, that " 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 lessons taught... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1831 - 686 pages
...over the door these words, " This is the House of Mirth;" then he remembered the words of the wise man "That it is better to go to the House of Mourning than to go to the The Hoiiie of Mourning and the Honne of Mirth. House of Feasting," Eccl. vii. 2, 4. And again, "The... | |
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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. 
