Ecclesiastes

9: 10. Better say, “This one thing I do,” than to say, “These fifty things I dabble in.”

12: 1. God prizes a Christian in the bud, and delights in the blossoms of youth more than in the sheddings of old age.

Usually where the devil pleads antiquity, he retains possession.

As there are none so old that they need despair of mercy, so there are none so young that they should presume on mercy.

Youthful sins lay a foundation for aged sorrows.

12: 6. Pierson makes this verse set forth four ways of death: — a. Silver cord loosed — spinal cord loosed —

paralysis. 6. Golden lxpwl broken — the skull and brain.

c. Pitcher broken — lungs — asphyxia.

d. Wheel at cistern broken — heart — syncope.