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

Thou seest he reciteth not the works under the sun,¹ but the very Creatures of God them selves, such as is the generation of men, the sun, the water, and the land, comprising almost the four Elements herein. For the Philosophers have so devised the four elements, wherein all things live that are in the world. They have placed the sier above, over the three other elements. And Solomon seemeth to take the sun, for this fiery element ⟨image 15⟩so that in these words he expoundeth what he would have understanded, by these words under the sun, so that the sum of his meaning is this. The creatures of this world, the sun, the air, the water &c. Wherein men have there being, abide in the rule and law appointed them: they go forth, they run back again, they are carried &c. even as they are ordained, they have their prefixed courses, they change not, they go not out of them, but do that they ought to do, as the sun goeth his way and certain course &c. But men which have their being in these four elements, creatures of such constancy and stability can not do the like, because they waver and stagger, being most inconstant by reason of the variety of their divers enterprises and desires, not content within their own bounds, businesses, and vocations &c. Wherefore they expound not the matter which understand the generation that passeth,