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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.
Chapter 9 › For in the grave there is no work.Chapter 9 › For in the graue there is no worke.
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.
For in the grave there is no work.
For in the graue there is no worke.
1AN other place, proving that the dead have no perseverance or feeling. There is (saith he) no devise, no science, no knowledge, no wisdom there. Solomon judgeth that the dead are a sleep, and feel nothing at all. For the dead lye there accounting neither days nor years, but when they are awaked, they shall seem to have slept scarce one minute.
1AN other place, prouing that the dead haue no perseueraunce or féeling. There is (saith he) no deuise, no science, no knowledge, no wisedome there. Salomon iudgeth that the dead are a sleepe, and féele nothing at all. For the dead lye there accompting neyther dayes nor yeares, but when they are awaked, they shall séeme to haue slept scarce one minute.
- 1Against invocation of Saints.Against inuocation of Saintes.
1Hell signifieth a pit or grave, but properly (as I judge) that secret withdrawing place, where the dead sleep out of this life, whence the soul goeth to her place (whatsoever it be, for corporal it is not) so that thou mayst understand hell to be that place where the souls be kept, being a certain grave (as it were) of the soul, without this corporal world, as the earth is the sepulchre of the body. But what manner of place it is, we know not. So in the 42. and 43. of Gen: I shall go