...now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy...no ointment. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days...

...refine and elevate the foul, but never to wafte and confume the body. 'Tis a precept of fcripture ; Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. If we muft do nothing but pray ; what room would there be for reading the fcriptures, for meditation,...

...Interceffor was to be clothed with white Linnen, Pfalm li. 9. IJhall be whiter than Snow. Eccl. ix. 8. Let thy Garments be always white, and let thy Head lack no Ointment. Ifa. i. 18. Shall be as white as Snow. Dan. xi. 35. to make them white jXii. lo.Jhall purify themfeives...

...living Water. A chear- John vii. ful Life arid Temper is very properly fet out by 38. this Figure. Let thy Garments be always white, and let thy Head lack no Ointment. Baptifm Eccl.ix.8^ reprefents both the Satisfaction Chrift made for our Sins by his Blood, and the...

...knowledge, and comfort, by faith. Thus Christ most heartily invites, Eat, 0 friends! drink, O beloved! " Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart," Eccles. ix. 7. MAY 27. — These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son...

...And then would I venture to addrefs You, in the elegant and chearing Language of the royal PREACHER; Go thy Way, eat thy Bread with Joy, and drink thy Wine with a merry Heart; for GOD now accepteth § both thy Perfon, and thy Performances. But, * z Cor. viii. 12. •{• 2 Cor. i. zi. J i Cor. i....

...perifhed ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the fun. 7 fl Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy...with a merry heart:, for God now accepteth thy works. . ;,.;,. -;_ .- / ;_ ,. 8 Let thy garments be always whjfej.and let thy head lack no ointment. .. I...

...faith, and as the answer to thy departed husband's pr&yer while he was here below. "Go thy way, ent thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath accepted thy work of faith and labour »f love. But whether you eat or drink, or whatever you...

...down ? when I can but be fo happy to keep in with him ; I will fay to myfelf, (as Ecclef. ix. 8.) " Eat thy bread with joy, and " drink thy wine with a merry heart, for now God " accepts thy works." And when the Spirit's oil of gladnefs is poured into my foul, O that...

...covenanted to thee, which may make them fweet to thy tafte: That word inEccl. ix. 7. belongs to thee, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy...a merry heart ; for God now accepteth thy works." Every morfel of bread thou eateft comes from thy Father's hand, fwcetened in the blood of Chrift, and...