 | Edward Polhill - 1824 - 228 pągines
...Lord is the beginning or head of knowledge," Prov. i. 7 : and ends his Ecclesiastics with this ; " That to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man," Eccles. xii. 13. Other things appertain to the beast or the devil, but holy fear is the all of man;... | |
 | 1832 - 590 pągines
...upon it: For he gays in the conclusion of his Lcclesiaste.s which ho wrote in tlie decline of life, 'To fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man.' A good ht.-irl is infinitely more valuable, than eternal existence without it. Hence Solomon prefered... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 610 pągines
...Aat is, persevere in faith and obedience. To believe then and obey, or, as Solomon expresses it, ' To fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man.' Therefore, a professor of the faith without gennine obedience, and a pretender to obedience without... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - 1826 - 384 pągines
...the being of God, is 'it not a folly also not to worship God, when we acknowledge his existence ? " To fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man." We are not reasonable, if we are not religious. (Rom. xii. 1,; " Your reasonable service." 3. If it... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pągines
...the gratifications of the voluptuous sensualist, or the impious jest and jollity of the profane : and that to fear God, and keep his commandments is the whole duty, and the whole happiness of man. No. 162.] [MONDAY. ADVANTAGES OF DEVOTION. A DEVOTIONAL spirit, united... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pągines
...observed that the author, in an academic way, disputes on both sides of the question ; and at last concludes properly, that to ' fear God and keep his...bring every work to judgment.' The general tenor and style of Ecclesiastes is very different from the book of Proverbs, though there are many detached sentiments... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 588 pągines
...greatness and the certainty of that difference.* And in Ecclesiastes xii. 13, 14. Solomon declares, " That to fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man : because God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 618 pągines
...and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, are the sum of saving doctrine and duty ; Acts xx. 21. And that to fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; Eccles. xii. 13. And that " the end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 588 pągines
...greatness and the certainty of that difference.* And in Ecclesiastes xii. 13, 14. Solomon declares, " That to fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man : because God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be goqd, or... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 616 pągines
...and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, are the sum of saving doctrine and duty ; Acts xx. 21. And that to fear God and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; Eccles. xii. 13. And that " the end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good... | |
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Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. 
