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

For they have all one breath, and there is no excellency of man above the beast. For all is vanity. All go to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall return to the dust.

For they haue all one breath, and there is no excellency of mā aboue the beast. For all is vanitie. All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

This place can not be wrested to the mortality of the soul,¹ because he speaketh of things under the sun. Certes the world can not perceive, nor believe that the soul is immortal. But if a man regard the likeness that Solomon speaketh of, man dyeth like as the beast doth, & breatheth even as the beast doth. In a kind of likeness therefore we be all one. The Philosophers reasoned in deed of the immortality of the soul, but so coldly, that they may seem to have done nothing but trifle, but Aristotle ⟨image 62⟩chiefly so disputeth of the soul, that in all places he taketh circumspect heed that he reason not of the immortality thereof, and would not express what his meaning was. Plato reported rather what other men said, then what him self thought. For the immortality thereof can be proved by no reason of man, because it is a thing beyond the sun, to believe the soul is immortal. In the world it is not seen, nor understanded for a certainty, that the mind of man is immortal.

THis place can not be wrested to the mortalitie of the soule,¹ because he speaketh of things vnder the sunne. Certes the worlde can not perceaue, nor beleue that the soule is immortall. But if a man regarde the likenes that Salomō speaketh of, man dyeth lyke as the beast doth, & breatheth euen as the beast doth. In a kynde of likenes therfore we be all one. The Philosophers reasoned in déede of the immortalitie of the soule, but so coldly, that they may séeme to haue done nothyng but trifle, but Aristotle