Title page of An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed, London, 1573

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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

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

Title page typeset from the transcription.

Chapter 12 › ❀ When the Grasshopper shall be a burden.Chapter 12 › ❀ When the Grashopper shall be a burthen.

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❀ When the Grasshopper shall be a burden.

❀ When the Grashopper shall be a burthen.

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¹That is, such an old man is like to a grasshopper. The whole body is nothing but skin, and bone. For his bones stick out, and his body is worn away. And so he is become a very Image and Counterfeit of death.

¹THat is, such an olde man is lyke to a grashopper. The whole bodie is nothing but skinne, and bone. For his bones sticke out, and his body is worne away. And so he is become a very Image and Counterfet of death.

1Leannesseand bones sticking out.

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When pleasure and delight abateth

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For thus had I liefer to enterpretate the hebrew word:¹

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The book

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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.

Author

Martin Luther 1483–1546

Place

London

Printer

John DayeIohn Daye

Year

1573

Size

181 [i.e. 187] leaves

Words

71,187

Catalogue

STC 16979 · ESTC S105591

Text

EEBO-TCP A06504

Passages

797

Sections

334

Title page

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

❀ When the Grasshopper shall be a burden.

❀ When the Grashopper shall be a burthen.

When pleasure and delight abateth

For man shall go into the house of his age, and the mourners shall go about in the street.

For man shall goe into the house of his age, and the mourners shall goe about in the streat.

Before the silver cord be taken away, and the golden Ewer broken.

Before the siluer corde be taken away, and the golden Ewer broken.

Before the Pitcher be broken at the well, and the wheel at the Cistern

Before the Pytcher be broken at the well, and the wheele at the Cesterne

And the dust return to the earth, as it was in the beginning.

And the dust returne to the earth, as it was in the beginning.

And the spirit return to God that gave it.

And the spirit returne to God that gaue it.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

❀ When the Grasshopper shall be a burden.

❀ When the Grashopper shall be a burthen.

When pleasure and delight abateth

For man shall go into the house of his age, and the mourners shall go about in the street.

For man shall goe into the house of his age, and the mourners shall goe about in the streat.

Before the silver cord be taken away, and the golden Ewer broken.

Before the siluer corde be taken away, and the golden Ewer broken.

Before the Pitcher be broken at the well, and the wheel at the Cistern

Before the Pytcher be broken at the well, and the wheele at the Cesterne

And the dust return to the earth, as it was in the beginning.

And the dust returne to the earth, as it was in the beginning.

And the spirit return to God that gave it.

And the spirit returne to God that gaue it.