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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.
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.
As thou knowest not which is the way of the Spirits, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with Child: So thou knowest not the word of God that worketh all.
As thou knowest not which is the waye of the Spirites, nor how the bones doe growe in the wombe of her that is with Childe: So thou knowest not the worde of God that worketh all.
Solomon useth this copiousness of exhortation,1 to awake and stir up our slothfulness: Even (saith he) as thou knowest not the way of the wind, and how the bones are joined together &c: even so thou knowest not the work that God doth every where or in all men. Thou knowest not what God will determine of thy self, or of any other, whether thou shalt live or dye to morrow, whether thou shalt be sick, or have any other mishap. If God would have prolonged our life and our days, so that we might have known how long, we would have been the worst Creatures on the earth. But now know we not whether we shall live one hour, and yet we will not cease our evil doing. This similitude Christ useth in the third of Saint John: Thou hearest the blowing of ⟨image 179⟩the wind, and yet thou knowest not whence it cometh, nor whether it will, and no more knowest thou whether thou shalt go. As therefore thou feelest the wind present, so use thou thy present goods.
SAlomon vseth this copiousnes of exhortation,1