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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…
A brief exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...
London: printed by T.C. for Ralph Smith, 1654
A BRIEF EXPOSITION UPON ECCLESIASTES. › VersesA BRIEFE EXPOSITION UPON ECCLESIASTES. › Verses
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.
Fourthly, The Golden Boll is broken] When the Scull is parted in the sutures or seams of it, whence the Chaps fall, the Almonds of the ears are stopped, part lifting up again. For the Hebrew is the same with Golgotha which signifieth a Scull, 2 Kings 9.35. Matth. 27.33. It is a Bowl because it is round, and golden both for the colour, and for the precious use of it to contain and preserve the Brain.
Fourthly, The Golden Boul is broken] When the Scull is parted in the sutures or seames of it, whence the Chaps fall, the Almonds of the eares are stopped, part lifting up againe. For the Hebrew is the same with Golgotha which signifieth a Scull, 2 Kings 9.35. Matth. 27.33. It is a Bowle because it is round, and golden both for the colour, and for the pretious use of it to containe and preserve the Braine.
Fourthly, The Pitcher broken at the Spring] That is, the bladder is broken at the spring of water, the Issuing forth of the water or the retentive faculty of the muscle at the neck of the bladder being broken, so that water (urine) issueth from him insensibly, without stay.
Fifthly, The wheel broken at the Cistern] Is the Lungs broken off from their motion of inspiration and respiration by phlegm from the stomach, which is as the Cistern from all the body. The Lungs are as a wheel transmitting the Air in and out, up and down: But though there be no open passage between the Stomach and the Lungs (and therefore is no ordinary purging of the Lungs but upwards by spitting and coughing) yet when the Stomach is surcharged with phlegm, it distilleth it into the Lungs and stoppeth them; look as when a man or beast is dead, there seemeth no way of entrance into the bladder for water, no not for Air (for if you blow it full of wind, none will issue out:) And yet whilst there is life in the body, both water and sand pass through little veins into the bladder. So by the like secret passages doth the Cistern of the Stomach convey phlegm to the Lungs, even to the stifling of them. And upon this stoppage of the Lungs with phlegm, that the wheel cannot turn the Air (or breath) up and down, in and out, followeth rattling in the Throat, breaking off the motion of the Lungs, and so death suddenly followeth.