 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...men followed him to the tomb and made great lamentation over him." The proverb was verified in him, " A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." His death was improved in Salem Chapel, on Sabbath evening, Aug.... | |
 | Thomas Manton - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...out the lip, they shake the head" (Psalm xxii. 7). A good name is more precious than life to some : " A good name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth " (Eccles. vii. 1). The coupling of these two sentences shows, men... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...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.... | |
 | William Euen - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...heart. 31. The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is the Lord's. 32. A good man is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth. 33. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for their is no work, nor device, nor... | |
 | John Stevens (Baptist Minister.) - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 778
...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... | |
 | 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...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... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...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... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 1236
...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... | |
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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. 
