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

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Chapter 9 › ¶ Their love their hatred. &c.Chapter 9 › ¶ Their loue their hatred. &c.

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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¶ Their love their hatred. &c.

¶ Their loue their hatred. &c.

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Understand all these things actively as before, that is to say: the benefits they did by loving, by obeying. &c. are forgotten:¹ And where as Saint. Hierome cavileth, that although they know not what is done in the world, yet they know the things that are done in heaven, it is an error, and a folly.

VNderstand all these thinges actiuely as before, that is to say: the benefits they did by louing, by obeying. &c. are forgotten:¹ And where as Saint. Hierome caueleth, that although they know not what is donne in ye worlde, yet they know the thinges that are donne in heauen, it is an error, and a folly.

1An error of Saint Hierome.An errour of Saint Hierome.

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¶ Moreover they have no part or portion in this word.

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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

¶ Their love their hatred. &c.

¶ Their loue their hatred. &c.

¶ Moreover they have no part or portion in this word.

Go therefore and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful hart. For now thy works please God.

Goe therefore and eate thy breade with ioy, and drinke thy wine wyth a cherefull hart. For now thy works please God.

¶ For thy works please God.

¶ For thy workes please God.

At all times let thy garments be white, and let thine head be anointed with oil.

At all tymes let thy garmentes bee white, and let thyne heade be anoynted with oyle.

And anoint thy head with oil.

And anoynt thy hed with oyle.

Rejoice with the wife whom thou hast loved all the days of the life of thy vanity, which God hath given thee under the Sun, all the days of thy vanity. For this is thy portion in the life, and in thy travel wherein thou labourest under the Sun.

Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the lyfe of thy vanitie, which God hath geuen thee vnder the Sunne, all the dayes of thy vanitie. For this is thy portion in the lyfe, and in thy trauell wherein thou labourest vnder the Sunne.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

¶ Their love their hatred. &c.

¶ Their loue their hatred. &c.

¶ Moreover they have no part or portion in this word.

Go therefore and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful hart. For now thy works please God.

Goe therefore and eate thy breade with ioy, and drinke thy wine wyth a cherefull hart. For now thy works please God.

¶ For thy works please God.

¶ For thy workes please God.

At all times let thy garments be white, and let thine head be anointed with oil.

At all tymes let thy garmentes bee white, and let thyne heade be anoynted with oyle.

And anoint thy head with oil.

And anoynt thy hed with oyle.

Rejoice with the wife whom thou hast loved all the days of the life of thy vanity, which God hath given thee under the Sun, all the days of thy vanity. For this is thy portion in the life, and in thy travel wherein thou labourest under the Sun.

Reioyce with the wife whom thou hast loued all the dayes of the lyfe of thy vanitie, which God hath geuen thee vnder the Sunne, all the dayes of thy vanitie. For this is thy portion in the lyfe, and in thy trauell wherein thou labourest vnder the Sunne.