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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.
Chapter 3 › As the beasts dye, so dye men.Chapter 3 › As the beastes dye, so dye men.
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.
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?
HE speaketh of the houre of death,1 not of the kinde. That is, as the houre of the beasts death is vncerteine, so is the houre of mās. A beast knoweth not whē he shal fall sicke or be whole, or when he shal dye, no more knoweth a man. Why therefore are we so proude? Since wee know no more when we shall dye, then doth the beast?
- 1The hour of death is uncertain.The houre of death is vncertaine.