...known in his children. Ecclesiastes. I returned and saw under the sun, that the ra:e is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all. There was a little city, and few men within it: and there came a great king against it, and besieged...

...cannot command success, is a maxim confirmed explicitly by scripture. " I returned," says Solomon, " and saw under the sun that the race is not to the...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." " I have planted," says Paul, " Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that...

...goest, there is no work to be done, no device to be contrived, no use of knowledge or wisdom. IX. 11 / returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skilt; but time and chance happeneth to them all. I saw and observed, that, here on earth, all things...

...wisdom and discretion. Our very recreations must not be sensual, but rational and industrious. IV. ^f I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Some consider this verse as the observation of another vanity under the sun, viz. That events and successes...

...• TIME AND CHANCE. I teturned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, — nor (he battle to the strong ; — neither yet bread to the...skill,— but time and chance happeneth to them all. E'ccl. ix. 11. SERMON IX. p. 109. THE CHARACTER OF HEROD. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken...

...may be well laid, every assistance necessary to success may be procured ; but "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to " the strong, neither yet...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to " them all." " Money is a defence," and hence it is so anxiously desired, so universally pursued ; but how many...

...things, yet we many times fall short of our aims and hopes. It was the observation of the wisest man, "'I returned and saw under the sun, that the race...to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to all-." Indeed such is the order of divine providence in the world, there must be different conditions...

...seen by those who have diligently observed human counsels and events, " that the race is not to the se.8 %3 Ecc. iz. 11. As all human affairs are liable to accidents and disasters, a firm persuasion, and serious...

...means, that his banished be not expelled from him. f Printed.) Hendon. Rev. Williams. Eccles. ix. 11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is...nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeueth to them all. Islington. St. Mary. Rev. Jerome Alley. Job, xxxiv. 18,19, 20. Is it fit to...

...other object of his pursuit. He is entirely dependent upon God for success. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread...skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Ex. 9. il. A man may have a fair prospect of success in an. undertaking, and yet be disappointed, as...