A brief exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that…A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that…

In your Families, by private prayer, singing of Psalms, catechizing your children and servants, training them up in Gods fear, and restraining ⟨image 5⟩them from that pride, wantonness, and stubbornness, which your faithful Pastor (now with God) was wont much to complain of, and which in these looser times, I wish, you had not cause much more now to bewail.

In your Families, by private prayer, singing of Psalms, catechizing your children and servants, training them up in Gods feare, and restraining ⟨image 5⟩them from that pride, wantonness, and stubbornness, which your faithful Pastor (now with God) was wont much to complaine of, and which in these looser times, I wish, you had not cause much more now to bewaile.

Now the good Lord help you to stand up for God in your several places, and so to serve your generations, ¹that peace and truth may be in your days: that in them your Sun may not go down, but when ye are gathered to your fathers, in your hopeful and happy posterity it may rise with greater strength and glory, as drawing nearer to a more glorious day now approaching; that then another generation may not arise after you, which shall not know the God of their fathers, ²and so the ages to come may be to seek for Samnium in Samnio, old Boston in New. But on the contrary▪

Now the good Lord help you to stand up for God in your severall places, and so to serve your generations, ¹that peace and truth may be in your daies: that in them your Sun may not go down, but when ye are gathered to your fathers, in your hopefull and happy posterity it may rise with greater strength and glory, as drawing neerer to a more glorious day now approaching; that then another generation may not arise after you, which shal not know the God of their fathers,