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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
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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.
I considered in mine hart the state of the children of men, that God ⟨image 60⟩hath purged them: yet, to see to, they are in themselves as beasts. For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are even as one. As the one dyeth: so dyeth the other.
I considered in myne hart the state of the children of men, that God ⟨image 60⟩hath purged them: yet, to see to, they are in themselues as beastes. For the condition of the children of mē, and the cōdition of beastes are euen as one. As the one dyeth: so dyeth the other.
1This place is somewhat obscure, not so much of it self, as through the default of the expositors, which greatly trouble themselves, while they suppose for the most part that Solomon speaketh in the presence of the ungodly: but this is but a cold invention and supposal, although a received. Me thinketh the sense is to be taken plainly. He maketh a manner of a Sermon or collation of mans ways and devises, that they are all but vain. At length he cometh to the trouble and vexation, that is in officers, how they which ought to be a rule & ensample to other, are also vain them selves. So of special propositions going before, he descendeth to general. What shall I say or speak of singular estates, of persons, when we be all as beasts? Is not this a miserable case among men? Wherein differ they from beasts, which have no remembrance or feeling of God? ⟨p. 59⟩