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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.
This also is a vanity and vexation of spirit.
This also is a vanitie and vexation of spirite.
IF for example thou wouldest remedy this envy, and such like evils. Let them envy one another, let and hinder one another, deal unjustly one with another: if God mean to use thy help and counsel, he will do it in his time and place: wait thou for that. Even so now, if it please him to preserve studies and schools, he knoweth the time and persons ⟨p. 66⟩by whom to do it. They whom we think fit for this purpose, be many times most unhandsome and unfit.
IF for example thou wouldest remedye this enuie, and such like euils. Let them enuie one another, lette and hynder one another, deale vniustly one with another: if God meane to vse thy helpe and counsell, he will doe it in his tyme and place: waite thou for that. Euen so now, if it please him to preserue studies and schooles, he knoweth the tyme and persons ⟨p. 66⟩by whom to doe it. They whome we thinke fitte for this purpose, be many tymes most vnhandsome and vnfitte.