...find not; one man among a thousand have I found ; but a woman among all those hare I not found. 29 y, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see //. 35 I (G) EXPOSITION7. CHAP. VII. 'C) Importance of charnctcr , nf teriousMM, of prudence, anil of wisdom....

...CHAPTER III. Skewing how Goonah Purist sought the Means of Salvation among those called Christians. " Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have songht out many inventions." Ecclcs- vii. 29. J^S OW I saw, in my dream, that, while Goonah Purist...

...proves it : they may all be explained on the more rational principle sanctioned by Soloman, who says, Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright ; but they have found out many indentions. \\ That is, they corrupted themselves, § by indulging those sensual and...

...to abhor these things. So that, according to Solomon's observation, in all ages of the world, " God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions," Eccles. vii. 29. For the original integrity of human nature does not consist in having no temptations to vice, but in...

...not predestinate him, if innocent, to the same fate. It is more clearly expressed, Eccles. vii. 29. ' God hath made man upright ; but they have sought out many inventions,' whence the day of evil ensues as certainly, as if the wicked had been made for it Predestination, therefore,...

...'Psalm xix. 7—11. ( 66 ) LECTURE VII. ON THE STATE OF INNOCENCE IN PARADISE. 'Ecclesiastes vii. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright; but they have sought out many inventions. GOD undoubtedly made our first parents upright and happy". Yet so short was the continuance of primaeval...

...bewitch him.1 (Has. \v. II. Judges xvi. 17 — 21. Prov. vii. 21, 22, and v. 6) Ver. 29. /.«, //'/- only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have tought out many inventions.] Thit only: He could not discover all the streams of wickedness and folly...

...THOMAS WETHERALD. DELIVERED AT FRIENDS* MEETING, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, JUNE I II, 1826. IT is a truth " that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." And in nothing, I apprehend, has the invention of man had so great a tendency to frustrate the designs...

...truth and goodness, it wanders and delights to wander in crooked or by-paths of its own. For ' God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions ;' Eccles. vii. 29. These it pleaseth itself withal, and is conformed unto. For there is somewhat in every error to recommend...

...;' Col. iii. 10. • which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness ;' Eph. iv. 24. ' Lo this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but he hath sought out many inventions ;' Eccles. vii. 29. ' By one man sin entered into the world, and...