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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.
The viij. Chapter.
The viij. Chapiter.
Keep the kings Commandment I warn thee, and the oath that thou hast made to God.
Keepe the kynges Commaundement I warne thee, and the othe that thou hast made to God.
Solomon seemeth in this book to fray men from intermeddling with worldly affairs:1 wherewith he hath as much need again to exhort them to be doing. As we while we preach faith, do utterly dehort men from working, to set forth the true Sabbath. Again, when faith is once plan •ed, we must labour to show Christians how busy they must be to do well to their neighbours, and how in this behalf they must keep no Sabbath, but must be zealous in doing good works, fervent in charity toward their neighbours, and keep the Sabbath only before God. So Solomon teacheth us in this place, to do nothing after our counsels and devise, but all things according to the word of ⟨image 139⟩God. And thus he is occupied as it were through half the chapter.
SAlomon séemeth in this booke to fray men from intermedling with worldly affayres:1