Title page of An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed, London, 1573

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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

Name: An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed
Author: Martin Luther

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.

Martin Luther 1483–1546London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573

181 [i.e. 187] leaves · 71k words · STC 16979 · ESTC S105591

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Chapter 7 › This also is a vanity.Chapter 7 › This also is a vanitie.

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.

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This also is a vanity.

This also is a vanitie.

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Because after the end of mirth, grief and trouble remaineth in the mind. After this sort is all carnal mirth, it endeth in trouble, and leaveth behind it a king stings.

BEcause after the ende of myrth, griefe and trouble remaineth in the mynde. After this sort is all carnall myrth, it endeth in trouble, and leaueth behinde it a king stinges.

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For a slanderer troubleth a wise man, and destroyeth a liberal or bountiful hart.

For a sclaunderer troubleth a wyse man, and destroyeth a liberall or bountifull hart.

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This also serveth for a place of consolation.¹ This is spoken by way of concession or grant: that is, it may come to pass that a slanderer may trouble a

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The book

Title as printed

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.

Author

Martin Luther 1483–1546

Place

London

Printer

John DayeIohn Daye

Year

1573

Size

181 [i.e. 187] leaves

Words

71,187

Catalogue

STC 16979 · ESTC S105591

Text

EEBO-TCP A06504

Passages

797

Sections

334

Title page

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

This also is a vanity.

This also is a vanitie.

For a slanderer troubleth a wise man, and destroyeth a liberal or bountiful hart.

For a sclaunderer troubleth a wyse man, and destroyeth a liberall or bountifull hart.

The end of a matter is better then the beginning.

The ende of a matter is better then the beginning.

The Patient in spirit is better then the high minded.

The Patient in spirite is better then the high minded.

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Be not hastyly angry in thy mynde, for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

¶ Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

¶ Anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

¶Say not thou, why is it that the days of old time were better then these? For thou dost not enquire wisely of this thing.

¶Saye not thou, why is it that the daies of olde time were better then these? For thou doost not enquyre wysely of this thinge.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

This also is a vanity.

This also is a vanitie.

For a slanderer troubleth a wise man, and destroyeth a liberal or bountiful hart.

For a sclaunderer troubleth a wyse man, and destroyeth a liberall or bountifull hart.

The end of a matter is better then the beginning.

The ende of a matter is better then the beginning.

The Patient in spirit is better then the high minded.

The Patient in spirite is better then the high minded.

Be not hastily angry in thy mind, for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Be not hastyly angry in thy mynde, for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

¶ Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

¶ Anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.

¶Say not thou, why is it that the days of old time were better then these? For thou dost not enquire wisely of this thing.

¶Saye not thou, why is it that the daies of olde time were better then these? For thou doost not enquyre wysely of this thinge.