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An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed.An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And made us before (to say) that we were.
And made vs before (to say) that we were.
The like phrase hath S. Paul: Who first gave unto him, and he shall be recompensed? Even therefore as this king ruleth and governeth, all things fall out. Hereby therefore he showeth that our devises are of no value, because we be made, and be not the king. God will not have us and his creatures to be ruled by our selves, but contrariwise, or else we should be kings and rulers over ⟨p. 41⟩God. Nothing succeedeth after our wisdom, or foolishness, but many incur displeasure by foolishness, and more by wisdom, as even the wisest of all other men, Dion, Cicero, Brutus, Demosthenes. &c. Because God doth frustrate and delude mans counsels and devises, to provoke us by all means to fear him, and to learn to let him alone with the governance of all things, and in nothing to prescribe him.
THe like phrase hath S. Paule: Who first gaue vnto him, and he shal be recompenced? Euen therfore as thys kyng ruleth and gouerneth, all thynges fall out. Hereby therfore he sheweth that our deuises are of no value, because we be made, and be not the kyng. God will not haue vs and his creatures to be ruled by our selues, but contrariwise, or els we should be kynges and rulers ouer ⟨p. 41⟩God. Nothing succéedeth after our wisdome, or foolishnes, but many incurre displeasure by foolishnes, and more by wisdome, as euen the wysest of all other men, Dion, Cicero, Brutus, Demosthenes. &c. Because God doth frustrate and delude mans counsels and deuises, to prouoke vs by all meanes to feare him, and to learne to let him alone with the gouernaunce of all thinges, and in nothing to prescribe hym.