...What if we reply, that he has lost it? I certainly do not intend to contradict Solomon, who asserts that " God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions." (<) . But man by his degeneracy having shipwrecked both himself and all his excellencies, whatever...

...were not in his body some unruly propensities, some seeds of concupiscence. Solomon answers for us : " Lo, this only " have I found, that God hath made man upright." Vain and presumptuous mortals ! Do you pretend to know more of this subject than the wisest of kings,...

...as an objection to the above, and as proof of the original righteousness of man. (Eccl. vii. 29.) " Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright; but they have sought out many inventions." Here 1 shall appeal to Dr. Taylor, whose erudition, as a Hebrew scholar, I am inclined to think, will...

.... i . . Shewing how Goonah Purist sought the Means of Sali nation among those called Christians. " Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man...upright, but they have sought out many inventions." £cctes. vii. 29. 1^1 OW I saw, in my dream, that, while Goonah Purist sat meditating in the place...

...evident that they can by nature do the "things contained in the law. "The passage, Eccles, vii. 29, " God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions," is a direct refutation of original or inherent sinfulness. GEN. xv. 0. And he [Abraham] believed in...

...ancestor Adam was created not only with innocent, but with holy dispositions. Solomon says, " I have found that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions." In the fall of Adam, his posterity became depraved and corrupt : (l The good man (says the Prophet...

...the people with the malignity and root, so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still ra. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright : but they have sought many inventions". For there is not a just man upon the earth that doth good and sinneth not °. Behold,...

...hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. SECTION X. 1 ><-lcs. vii. 29. Lo, this have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. Rom. vii. 18. For I know that in me, (that it, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is...

...the people with the malignity and root, so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still m. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright : but they have sought many inventions". For there is not a just man upon the earth that doth good and sinneth not °. Behold,...

...the malignity and root, so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still m. Lo, this ftnly have I found, that God hath made man upright : but they have sought many inventions°. For there is not a just man upon the earth that doth good and sinneth not0. Behold,...