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

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Chapter 9 › Go therefore and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine wit…: Go therefore and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a cheerful hart.…Chapter 9 › Goe therefore and eate thy breade with ioy, and drinke thy wine wyt…: Goe therefore and eate thy breade with ioy, and drinke thy wine wyth a cherefull hart.…

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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.

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AS Solomon is wont after a rehearsal of vanity in this world to join immediately some comfort and exhortation for us to be merry, and of good cheer:¹ even so doth he in this place, as though he should say: Seeing we are constrained to live in this perversity it shall be best for us, to be merry, and quiet. For we can not change these things, neither shall we any thing prevail, though we take never so much care there about. He calleth it thy bread and thy wine, that thou hast gotten through the blessing of God. So Isaiah. 4. We will eat our bread. And Paul to the Thessalonians: Let every one eat his own bread.

AS Salomon is wont after a rehersal of vanitie in this worlde to ioyne immediately some comfort and exhortation for vs to be meary, and of good cheere:¹ euē so doth he in this place, as though he should say: Seing we are constrayned to lyue in this peruersitie it shall be best for vs, to be meary, and quyet. For we can not chaunge these thinges, neyther shall we any thinge preuayle, though we take neuer so much care there about. He calleth it thy breade and thy wyne, that thou hast gotten through the blessing of God. So

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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

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.

All that thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy power: for there is neither work, nor invention, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whether thou goest.

All that thyne hand shall finde to doe, doe wyth all thy power: for there is neyther worke, nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisdome in the graue whether thou goest.

For in the grave there is no work.

For in the graue there is no worke.

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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.

All that thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy power: for there is neither work, nor invention, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave whether thou goest.

All that thyne hand shall finde to doe, doe wyth all thy power: for there is neyther worke, nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisdome in the graue whether thou goest.

For in the grave there is no work.

For in the graue there is no worke.