...that day; and not to me only, but unto nil them also that love his appearing, 2 Tin^'iv. 6, 7, », The day of death is better than the • day of one's birth, Eccles. vii. 1. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes-, and there shall be no more death,...

...verses 5 and 6, is very striking, and gives great elegance to the original. — and the day, &c.]— That " the day of death is better than the day of one's birth," as a general proposition, is, in spite of all the labour and ingenuity of the expositors, a censure...

...should conduct him on his way, Mr. Martyn resumed his ministerial functions at Cambridge with ardour, but with a heavy heart — The affairs of his family,...particular commemoration of the anniversary of his birth.. 56 " Twenty-three years have elapsed," (he wrote on the IGth of February, 1804,) "since I saw the light...

...the good prophet Elijah to heaven. From these intimations, we easily conclude with the wisest of men, That the day of death is better than the day of one's birth, Eccl. vii. 1. By our natural birth, we become inhabitants of a miserably wicked world; but by death,...

...return, to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, &c. — Eccles. v. 15, 16. Jobi. 21: The day of death is better than the day of one's birth : it is better to go to the house of mourning, &c. — Eccles. vii. 1,2. iv. 1, 2. No man hath power...

...are here taught, for instance, that life is better than death : but you are instructed by Solomon, that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth". You are here exhorted to eat, drink, and be merry : but the doctrine of the preacher is, that the house...

...the heart " refused to be comforted," and when they were ready to come to the melancholy conclusion, that " the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." But yet the morning of gladness has again dawned, and " the Lord has again lifted up the light of his...

...celebrate their funerals with rejoicing and praises: all which proceeds upon the truth of this maxim, That the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. For the proof of which, it will be needful to consider our birth and death under a threefold notion,...

...Esq. of Shadwell Dock, London. In his experience that Scripture was strikingly fulfilled, which states that " the day of death is better than the day of one's birth :" for tlie latter introduced him to far more than the ntual amount of corporeal suffering, and by...

...life are weighed, evil seems to outweigh good, and we can hardly help exclaiming with the wise man, ' The day of death is better than the day of one's birth ! I hate life because of the work that is wrought under the sun !' Eccles. vii. 1, and ii. 17. But...