Bible Encyclopedia: Vanity: Worldly Pleasure Is

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Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon.
... He had the best that could be gotten, from human wisdom, from wealth, from worldly
pleasure, from worldly honor, only to find that all was "vanity and vexation ...
/.../chapter xiv ecclesiastes and the.htm

Divine and Worldly Conformity
... But so long as pride and vanity remain in the ... and requiring them to cease wearing
worldly adornment is ... "There's no thirsting for life's pleasure, Nor adorning ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk nineteen divine and worldly.htm

James iv. 8-10
... It was therefore necessary, first of all, to arouse those who were sunk in worldly
pleasure to a sense of the vanity of such enjoyments, to the wretchedness of ...
/.../neander/the epistle of james practically explained/james iv 10-aug.htm

Wherefore it is Better to Take Entent to the Love of God than to ...
... An old wife is more expert in God's love, and less in worldly pleasure, than the
great divine, whose study is vain. For why, for vanity he studies, that he may ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rolle/the fire of love/chapter v wherefore it is.htm

Vanity of Human Glory.
... acted wisely, ie according to a worldly wisdom; but ... sensual enjoyments, or the more
refined pleasure which the ... may be tempted to indulge in vanity, which is ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xii vanity of human.htm

The Same Subject Continued.
... goes to her for advice, devoting with pleasure her leisure ... But, among the visits
made by worldly women; how ... time, to pander to their own vanity and curiosity ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter viii the same subject.htm

The Saints' Rest is not to be Expected on Earth.
... I suppose thou art so far convinced of the vanity of riches, honor and pleasure,
that thou ... and valued and he that delighteth in any worldly thing more ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter x the saints rest.htm

Thoughts Upon Worldly Riches. Sect. I.
... to mind, and so much taken up with worldly Business, that ... And so for the little seeming
transient Pleasure they take ... 7. Let them never suffer the Vanity of all ...
/.../private thoughts upon a christian life/thoughts upon worldly riches sect.htm

Sown among Thorns
... not the care of any age; but the care of the age is some vanity or another ... be put
is to make a hedge of them, to keep the goats of worldly pleasure from eating ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 34 1888/sown among thorns.htm

Memento Mori
... that death's lantern by which the sexton shall dig our graves, we might see more
of the hollowness of sinful pleasure, and of the emptiness of worldly vanity. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/memento mori.htm

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Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
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