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 12 › Put away grief out of thine hart, and cause evil to depart from t…: Put away grief out of thine hart, and cause evil to depart from thy flesh: for child…Chapter 12 › Put away greefe out of thyne hart, and cause euill to depart from t…: Put away greefe out of thyne hart, and cause euill to depart from thy fleshe: for child…

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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Put away grief out of thine hart, and cause evil to depart from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Put away greefe out of thyne hart, and cause euill to depart from thy fleshe: for childehode and youth are vanitie.

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IT is as much as if he should say:¹ even as I would have thee stayed by the fear of God from following filthy & noisome pleasures: so would I keep thee from being overcome with sorrows and adversity. Put sorrow therefore out of thy mind, that is, use not to be angry, nor to conceive indignation, when things go not as thou desirest. If any sad or sorrowful matter fall, know that it is the ⟨image 183⟩state of this world. Let other envy, hate, and fret at it, but do not thou. For such doings mar the pleasant life, according to the proverb: Envy is the rotting of the bones. For envy is a fretting and a consuming sickness. Let thine hart always be one, neither do thou corrupt it with overmuch worldly pleasures, ne yet with too many worldly griefs. &c.

IT is as much as if he should say:¹ euen as I would haue thée stayed by ye feare of God from following filthy & noysome pleasures: so woulde I keepe thee from being ouercommed with sorrowes and aduersitie. Put sorrow therefore out of thy mynde, that is, vse not to be angry, nor to conceaue indignation, whē things goe not as thou desirest. If any sad or sorowfull matter fall, know that it is the ⟨image 183⟩

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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

Put away grief out of thine hart, and cause evil to depart from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Put away greefe out of thyne hart, and cause euill to depart from thy fleshe: for childehode and youth are vanitie.

Put away evil from thy flesh.

Put away euill from thy fleshe.

For childhood and youth. &c.

For childehode and youth. &c.

¶ Remember thy Creator now in thine youth, before the evil days come, & the years approach: where in thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

¶ Remember thy Creator now in thine youth, before the euell dayes come, & the yeares approch: where in thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them.

Whiles the sun is not dark, nor the light, nor the Moon, nor the Stars, nor the Clouds, return after the rain.

Whiles the sonne is not darke, nor the light, nor the Moone, nor the Starres, nor the Cloudes, returne after the rayne.

¶ When the Reapers of the house shall tremble.

❀And the strong men shall bow them selves.

❀And the strong men shall bowe them selues.

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Put away grief out of thine hart, and cause evil to depart from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Put away greefe out of thyne hart, and cause euill to depart from thy fleshe: for childehode and youth are vanitie.

Put away evil from thy flesh.

Put away euill from thy fleshe.

For childhood and youth. &c.

For childehode and youth. &c.

¶ Remember thy Creator now in thine youth, before the evil days come, & the years approach: where in thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

¶ Remember thy Creator now in thine youth, before the euell dayes come, & the yeares approch: where in thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them.

Whiles the sun is not dark, nor the light, nor the Moon, nor the Stars, nor the Clouds, return after the rain.

Whiles the sonne is not darke, nor the light, nor the Moone, nor the Starres, nor the Cloudes, returne after the rayne.

¶ When the Reapers of the house shall tremble.

❀And the strong men shall bow them selves.

❀And the strong men shall bowe them selues.