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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.
What is that that hath been? The name thereof is now named, and it is known that it is man: and he can not strive with him, that is stronger then he.
What is that that hath beene? The name thereof is now named, and it is knowen that it is man: and he cā not striue with him, that is stronger then he.
BY the things gone before,1 this is sufficiently understanded, for we spake of this phrase before: What is that that is. &c. In all these words are Hebrew phrases, which thing we thus speak in the German tongue: As it hath been, so is it now: and as it is now, so will it be hereafter. That is, there shall be always most vain men, desirers and wishers for vanities, because they go beyond the word of God, and their appointed state. For they hearken not to the counsels of God. God hath made a difference of men, & appointed to all men their bounds, ⟨image 105⟩when they shall be borne,2 when they shall die, by what name they shall be called, & what office they shall bear: & when they are borne, he offereth them things to use presently & out of hand. But men being not contented with the ordinance and counsel of God, choose them most times other ways, and covet other things but in vain. For none but God alone bringeth that to pass, that he thinketh or deviseth.
BY the thinges gone before,