 | English literature - 1816 - 696 pages
...author preached to his congregation on the following words, taken from the book of liccleaiastes, '•' A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Towards the conclusion of bis sermon, he thus addresses his auditory... | |
 | J. Coote - 1817 - 378 pages
...continuing city, but we seek one to come. St. Martin's'in the Fields. Rev. Archdeacon Pott. Eccles. vii. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.—Second »ermon. Deuteronomy, xxvi. 11. And thou shalt rejoice... | |
 | Robert Huish - Nobility - 1818 - 904 pages
...Goodman, preached at the Synagogtie, Denmark Court, Strand. ECCLESIASTES, chap. vii. v. 1 and 2. " 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 mpuru>ng, than to the house of... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...which he spcndeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? CHAP. VII. ; righteousness, but behold death than the day of one s birth. 2 If ft is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 716 pages
...Minister, before the Corpse entering at the Church-door, may begin with one or more of these Senteqces. 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... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. Ecoles. vii. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 3 John 12. Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...12. All thr d«yt, &c.— Heb. "ThenomVr nf the dajs of the life of his vanity " WAiYA Ac CHAP. VII. 0 death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | John Scott - Sermons, English - 1826 - 538 pages
...the text. I shall not trouble you with any account of the connection between these two comparisons, A. good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth : the latter of which I have chosen for the subject of... | |
 | 1826 - 664 pages
...Scripture, besides these, which are made use of by another set of men against this truth ; as Eccl. vii. 10. "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Now, say they, if the wicked rise again, the day of their death... | |
 | Russel Canfield - Universalism - 1827 - 268 pages
...descend to a grateful, because a benefited posterity. The same writer has already informed us, that "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of DEATH, than the day of one's birth." If it be true, that dust returns to dust, and the spirit to God... | |
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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. 
