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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.
There is a time to be borne, and a time to dye.
There is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye.
1HE proveth the thing he hath spoken by examples of mans devises and occurrencies. Our birth hath his time, saith he, and likewise our death. And ⟨p. 51⟩even as we have not our births in our power, no more have we our deaths, and yet nothing is more ours then our life, and all our members, but only to use them. But we have no power or Lordship given us over them, not for one minutes space, and therefore in vain we seek to prescribe them rules or laws. The infant is in the hand of God, & can not be borne before his hour cometh. The women labour and are very careful about the birth of it, and tell when it will come, but there is no certainty in their saying. No more can we die, be we in never so extreme danger and desperation, but when our hour is come. Why then fear we death? Thou canst live no longer then God hath appointed, nor dye any sooner then he appointeth. For thus saith Job. 14. Mans time is determined, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed him his bounds, which he can not pass.
1HE prooueth the thing he hath spoken by examples of mans deuises and occurrencies. Our birth hath his tyme, sayth he, and likewise our death. And ⟨p. 51⟩euen as we haue not our birthes in our power, no more haue we our deathes, and yet nothing is more ours then our lyfe, and all our members, but onely to vse them. But wee haue no power or Lordship geuen vs ouer thē, not for one minutes space, and therfore in vayne we seeke to prescribe them rules or lawes. The infant is in the hand of God, & can not be borne before his houre commeth. The women labour and are very carefull about the byrth of it, and tell when it will come, but there is no certainty in their saying. No more can we die, be we in neuer so extreame daunger and desperation, but when our houre is come. Why then feare we death? Thou canst liue no lōger then God hath appointed, nor dye any sooner then he appointeth. For thus sayth