...passion are to be considered as the work of man: according to what is said in the Book of Ecclesiastes, " God hath made man " upright; but they have sought out many inventions". Eccles. vii. 29. That these bad effects are considered as avoidable, appears from our being ordered...

...shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. For all this I considered in my heart oven to declare all this, that the righteous and the wise, and...

...the heart of the sons of fnen is fully set in them to do evil. Chap. vii. 2Q — Lo, this only have I found, that. God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Ver. 8 — Better is the end of a 'tiling than the beginning thereof : and the patient in spirit is...

...therefore I was the less astonished at the abounding wickedness and folly of mankind. " Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions." Eccles, vii. 29. I read through the Epistles, but I could find nothing in them to countenance the doctrine...

...such a one in that weaker sex : a good man is rare, but a good woman more. VII. 29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. Now this pravity and corruption, which I find in both sexes, I do not cast upon their first creation:...

...in that weaker sex : a good man is rare, but a good woman more. VII. 29 Lo, this only have If mmd, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions. Now this pravity and corruption, which I find in ooth sexes, I do not cast upon their first creation:...

...among a thousand have I found ; but a woman among all those have I not found. 29 Lo, this only have CHAP. VIII. 1 Kings arc greatly to bercf/iected. 6 The divine firavidence is to be observed. 12 It...

...alone. This the scriptures particularly inculcate. ' Lo, this only have I found,' says the preacher, ' that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions/ From whence it appears clearly, that it is to man alone that his ruin must be imputed, since, having...

...were created, and from whence they fell, was a state of innocency. Eccles. vii. 29, Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. Q. 7. Whereby did our first parents fall from the state wherein they were created ? A, Our first parents...

...author of all his misery. Therefore tite wisest of kings saith, Keel, vii. 29. " Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions." It is therefore the glory, the wisdom and happiness of the reformed church, that she teaches more than...