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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 11: The eleventh Chapter.Chapter 11: The eleuenth Chapiter.
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.
The eleventh Chapter.
The eleuenth Chapiter.
Curse not the king in thy thought, nor the rich in thy bed chamber. for the souls of heaven shall carry thy voice, & they which have wings shall bewray it.
Curse not the king in thy thought, nor the rich in thy bed chamber. for the soules of heauen shall carry thy voice, & they which haue wings shall bewraye it.
1The Chapter going before was a kind of invective against fools, and a description of the kingdom of this world, what a kind of thing it is, so that whosoever beareth office, may know he hath a troublesome administration. And to know that the kingdom of this world is so troublesome and incorrigible, is the greatest wisdom that can be. Now this chapter exhorteth to good works: for when men are taught how unjust the kingdom of this world is, then their hearts begin to wax weary, and they devise how to give up all kind of administration, and to forsake the world, being overcome with the malice of men, as was declared heretofore. But Solomon teacheth, that the more unhappy and ungracious the world is, the more we should travel and ⟨p. 170⟩endeavour to do some good.