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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.
Be not just overmuch, neither make thy self overwise, least thou perish. Be not overmuch wicked, neither ⟨image 125⟩be thou foolish, least thou dye before thy time.
Be not iust ouermuch, neither make thy self ouerwise, least thou perish. Be not ouermuch wycked, neyther ⟨image 125⟩be thou foolish, least thou dye before thy tyme.
1That is let go all extremity of right. Measure thy self by thine own foot and singe Know thy self. Then shalt thou find in thine own bosom a long roll of vices and shalt say: Behold I my self am yet unjust, & yet suffered of God and not driven out from among men. Why then am I so hasty, to exact of other so rigorously that I my self perform not? This is to be too just. The world will not away with this. Observe therefore the laws, teaching and preaching, and give thanks to God, if at any time thy family, or hearers confess thy laws to be right & holy, although they perform them not, according to the prescript. So art thou in deed a just and a wise man. But then art thou too wise & too just, when in authority, or in thine own house, thou hast good laws, and wilt have them so straightly urged and followed that thou wilt not have one Jot of them broken. For this is Extreme right, extreme rigour.
1THat is let goe all extremitie of ryght. Measure thy selfe by thine owne foote and singe Knowe thy felfe. Then shalte thou finde in thine owne bosome a long roll of vyces and shalt say: Behold I my selfe am yet vniust, & yet suffred of God and not driuen out from amonge men. Why then am I so hasty, to exact of other so rigorously that I my selfe perfourme not? This is to be too iust. The world wil not away with this. Obserue therefore the lawes, teaching and preaching, and giue thankes to God, if at any tyme thy family, or hearers confesse thy lawes to be right & holy, although they perfourme them not, according to the prescript. So art thou in déede a iust and a wise man. But thē art thou too wyse & too iust, when in authoritie, or in thyne owne house, thou hast good lawes, and wilt haue them so straightly vrged and folowed that thou wilt not haue one Iote of them broken. For this is Extreame right, extreame rigour.