It is naught: Ecclesiastes 1:10; Hosea 12:7-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:6
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Proverbs 20:14
Proverbs 20:14
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I. GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL GOOD.
1. Of all bodily good. The eye, the ear, with all their wondrous mechanism, with all their rich instrumentality of enjoyment, are from him.
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They not only cheapen carelessly, as if they had no need, no mind for
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