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

All floods run into the sea, and yet the sea runneth not over. The floods return to the place from whence they flowed, that they may from thence flow out again.

All flouds runne into the sea, and yet the sea runneth not ouer. The flouds returne to the place from whence they flowed, that they may from thence flow out agayne.

Aristotle disputeth from whence the fountains and winds do come,¹ and is marvellously troubled in finding out the same, and divers other with him, but yet none of them could find out that that Solomon here saith, that all rivers come from the sea, and run into the sea again, making the sea to be the origin and beginning of all rivers, from whence by certain secret drayninges under the earth, they swell up & break out, where notwithstanding diverse of the Philosophers imagine, that the springs and beginnings of all Rivers come from under the earth. Howbeit Solomons saying is the trueth, namely, that all fountains & Rivers flow from the sea, & ebb into it again. These are very great wonders. First in the course & moving ⟨image 17⟩of that huge light whereof we have spoken already. Then in that the Rivers run into the sea, and yet the sea is not filled therewith. For else if the River Albis had flowed still from the beginning of the world, it might have risen so high, to have filled the air, even up to the Moon. And now although it hath run more then five thousand years, that it still abideth within the banks, and runneth not over.

ARistotle disputeth from whence the fountaines and wyndes doe come,¹ and is meruelously troubled in finding out ye same, and diuers other with him, but yet none of them could finde out that that Salomon here sayth, that all riuers come from the sea, and runne into ye sea agayne, making the sea to be the origine and beginning of all riuers, from whēce by certaine secret drayninges vnder the earth, they swell vp & breake out, where notwithstanding diuerse of the Philosophers imagine, that the springes and beginninges of all Riuers come from vnder the earth. Howbeit Salomons saying is the trueth, namely, that all fountaynes & Riuers flow frō the sea, & ebbe into it agayne. These are very great wonders. First in the course & moouing