...had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is...

...the fide of t heir oppreffeurs there-s was power, but there was no Comforter. Wherefore I •praijed the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are jet alive. Many in this Kirgdome have dyed many deaths under the y ron hands of heavy opprtffours,...

...ask, Is not this inconfiftent with what the Wife- Man ECC!. 4..i. has elfewhere advanc'd, in fraifmg the Dead. which are already dead^ more than the Living which are yet alive ? To this I return, that ) in one Paflage he has regard to the Troubles of Life, and in the other to...

...they have the Scripture on their fide. For the Wife Man, Eccl. 4. 2, 3. tells us, Wherefore I prtifcd the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive : Tea hetter is he than both they, who hath not yet heen, who hath not feen the evil work that is done...

...Comforter. This fo affected his Heart, that in the Bitternefs of his Concern he adds, Wherefore I praifed the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. But this feems to have been the Language of Paffion and Melancholy. A more juft and reafonable Conclufion...

...Occafioned by the Death of the Reverend Mr JAMES FALL. Ее с L ES. IV. г. Wherefore I praifed tbe dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive, - - ------551 SERM. 34. Occafioned by the Death of Mrs ELIZABETH GILL. HEBREWS XI. 16. But now they...

...vexation of fpirit, " and there was no profit under the fun! " Therefore I hated life, and I praifed the " dead which are already dead, more than the " living which are yet alive." He feems to place man's fupreme good in a kind- of ftoical apathy, a proud and contemptuous indifference...

...reason to doubt, whether it be the language of Solomon or the fool introduced in the book) J.pra ised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive : yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, Eccjes. iv. 2, 3. To consider things as...

....Solomon had confidered all theoppreffions and fore evils done under the fun^ he exclaimed, " I " praifed the dead which are already dead, more than the " living which are yet alive ; yea, better is he than both they» " whick hath not yet been, who hath not feen the evil work " that...

...side of their oppressors [there was] power ; but they had no comforter : and this -VCT2 ed my spirit ; Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive ; I thought them in a better condition than those who suffer by o/ifiression, vihofear 3 it, or even...