 | William Morrison Engles - 1845 - 204 pages
...which his judgment approved, and to which he directed the attention of those who were to follow him. A good name is 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... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...the most favored of the sons of earth, death is to be preferred to life, or non-being to existence. " A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." The phrase " the day of death" is better " than the day of one's... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1847 - 564 pages
...name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. Ec. 7 : 1 A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 519. General resurrection of the dead.... | |
 | John Stevens (Baptist Minister.) - 1848 - 486 pages
...deaths, and in their endless state after death. These solemn things the scripture saith. It also saith, " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth :" Eccles. vii. 1; Prov. xxi. 1. By faith a good report is gained.... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...antidote which a merciful God has provided for our relief in the present state of vanity and vexation. 1 A good name is better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth. A good name, ie virtue or religion, is more desirable than the choicest... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pages
...better to hear the rebuke of the wi than for a man to hear the song1 fools. For as the crackling of thoi e, forty days and forty nights ; and the LORD hearkened unto death than the day of one's birth. it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...antidote which a merciful God has provided for our relief in the present state of vanity and vexation. i A good name is better than precious ointment; And the day of death than the day of one's birth. A good name, ie virtue or religion, is more desirable than the choicest... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1849 - 646 pages
...HIS BIRTH-DAY. The substance of several Sermons preached at Ettrick, in the year 1730. EOCL. vii. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. NEVER man more livelily represented the vanity of this world and... | |
 | Abraham Belais - 1850 - 84 pages
...all kind and merciful Legislator, in the laws given to us by our ancestors and the Prophets. VII , I, "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." A proof of the impossibility of purchasing happiness by the means... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1850 - 390 pages
...dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in it ! " ON THE GOOD NAME OF THE DEAD.* ECCLESIASTES, vii. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. THERE seems, my brethren, at first view, to be something very extraordinary... | |
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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. 
