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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.
For the condition of the children of men, and of beasts are all as one.
For the condition of the childrē of men, and of beastes are all as one.
That is the like things happen to men, as do unto beasts. He meaneth man passeth up & down this life as the beasts do, and getteth no more by his life, then do the beasts.
THat is the like things happen to mē, as doe vnto beastes. He meaneth mā passeth vp & down this life as the beastes doe, and getteth no more by his life, then doe the beastes.
As the beasts dye, so dye men.
As the beastes dye, so dye men.
HE speaketh of the hour of death,1 not of the kind. That is, as the hour of the beasts death is uncertain, so is the hour of mans. A beast knoweth not when he shall fall sick or be whole, or when he shall dye, no more knoweth a man. Why therefore are we so proud? Since we know no more when we shall dye, then doth the beast?