The preachers proclamation Discoursing the vanity of all earthly things, and proving that there…The preachers proclamacion Discoursing the vanity of all earthly things, and proouing that there…

therefore when Solomon repeats this saying so often,¹ he calls for audience, as though he had some weighty and great matter to utter, such a point of wisdom is it for every man to know, that all is vanity, if we direct not things to their right end as when the holy Ghost would signify that God is all holy, he repeats thrice,² holy, holy, holy: so when he should show that man is all vain, thrice he repeateth vanity, to show, how hardly man believes that he is vain:³ therefore he brings in three assertions as it were witnesses to prove it, all agree upon the same words, but that the last is more plain & saith, that all is vanity, that is, ⟨image 10⟩that man is not only changed and become vain, but for the vanity of man as the Apostle saith, the creatures are subject to vanity,⁴ & have not that glory & liberty that they should have for the sin of man: A spiritual eye doth see some vanity or other in every thing, as appeareth betwixt Christ and his Disciples at Jerusalem, ⁵they gazed upon the building of the Temple as a brave thing, and would have had Christ to behold it with them, but he did see that it was but vanity, and therefore said, are these the things that ye look upon? as if he should say, how vain are you to gaze upon this? If Christ thought the beauty of his Temple were but a vain thing, and not worth the sight which yet was built & beautified, so by his own prescript, how should Solomon express all the vanity of the world, to which all men have added more and more since the beginning? therefore as if he wanted words to express it, as he did see it, he breaks forth into an exclamation, and ⟨image 10⟩repeats the same often, Vanity of &c. as if he should say, I cannot speak how vain the world is, but vain it is, and very vain and nought but vain, speaking as if he had the feeling and sense of it, as though the world stood naked before him, & it grieved him to see it, he cuts his words in chiding manner, and makes short riddance, as if it grieved him to speak all that he knew: therefore that which he speaks, he speaks roundly, that if they read no more but sleep all the Sermon time after, yet the first sentence shall strike a sting into their hearts, & leave a sound behind to waken them when they are gone, as many (you know) remember this sentence, which remember no sentence in all this book besides: