 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1837 - 642 pages
...divine precepts, and the general nature of man, agreeably to the declaration of God himself; ' It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him. ' (Gen. ii. 18.) Although the divine precept concerning marriage already absolves many from their monastic... | |
 | James Hough - Christianity - 1839 - 726 pages
...formidable. As to the text in Scripture urged by S. Teresa's friends for such a partnership, viz. It is not good for man to be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him — He saith, That considering what was the true intent of those words when they were spoke, such an... | |
 | Thomas Comber - 1841 - 550 pages
...was one of the principal ends which God had in creating the woman, and bringing her to the man, It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him, Gen. ii. 18. Our nature inclines us to society, and experience teacheth us that a companion makes adversity... | |
 | Robert Augustus Gordon - 1845 - 326 pages
...was to rule over them all. Adam was now alone in the garden of Eden. And the Lord God said, " It is not good for man to be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him." Then the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and while he slept, God took one of his ribs... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 642 pages
...divine precepts, and the general nature of man, agreeably to the declaration of God himself; * It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him.' (Gen. ii, 18.) Although the divine precept concerning marriage already absolves many from their monastic... | |
 | Ambrose Henkel, Socrates Henkel - Lutheran Church - 1851 - 784 pages
...continence, by a peculiar work of God, agreeably to this declaration of God himself: Gen. 2, 19. " It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him." Now, what can be alleged against this? They may applaud vows and duty as highly as they please, and... | |
 | John Kennedy - Ethnology - 1851 - 318 pages
...creation of the first man. But he who made him is represented as declaring that it was not good for him to be alone. " I will make him an help meet for him." " And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fill upon Adam, and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs,... | |
 | 1854 - 502 pages
...affirmed, and shows that the proofs advanced will not bear it ont. The Creator of man said, " It is not good for man to be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him." Man, withont woman, could not realize the full enjoyment of all his faculties, or serve the end of... | |
 | Ethan Allen - Natural theology - 1854 - 194 pages
...eat of it, for in the day that thou eatesUihereof thou shalt surely die." "And the Lord said, it is not good for man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him ; and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and he took out one of his... | |
 | Child rearing - 1854 - 460 pages
...Maker himself first recognized, and for it determined what provision should be made. He said, "It is not good for man. to be alone. I will make him an helpmeet for him." The nature of the Conjugal Relation may be inferred from the brief account of its... | |
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