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

¹This is a commination and threatening of the disobedient with the punishments that shall follow, as though he should say: I counsel you to be obedient and in subjection to the Magistrates. And if any will not be obedient to them let him go, but this vantage he shall have thereby that he shall wrap himself in many troubles, and incur many miseries & calamities, He shall every hour stand in fear and never escape. Therefore the best for him is simply to obey. For what shall it profit him to be disobedient, seeing he can not escape punishment, as it fell out with the country men and Bowers. Thus ought preachers to exhort those that are seditious & rebellious. ⟨p. 138⟩For God hath ordained and appointed a Judgement,² and a revenge and punishment for all disobedient persons, which none shall escape. And this is a singular comfort to all Magistrates, housekeepers and schoolmasters, which having done that in them lieth, and yet find those under their tuition obstinate and incorrigible and escape from them, that they take it in good part, knowing ye they shall not still escape unpunished.