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…

Doctr. 2. It is a wearisome and odious thing to seek happiness in those things, which we must leave behind us. As Solomon was to leave all those great works behind him, which he had wrought by his great wisdom and wealth, together with all the comforts which they afforded him [1 Tim. 6.7, 8.]

Doctr. 2. It is a wearysome and odious thing to seek happinesse in those things, which we must leave behinde us. As Solomon was to leave all those great works behinde him, which he had wrought by his great wisdome and wealth, together with all the comforts which they afforded him [1 Tim. 6.7, 8.]

Reason 1. From the great need we stand in of happiness when we depart hence: yea then have we most need of it; if otherwise we then fall of it, we become eternally miserable.

Reason 1. From the great need we stand in of happinesse when we depart hence: yea then have we most need of it; if otherwise we then fall of it, we become eternally miserable.

Use 1. To show the excellency of godly men above others; they carry the happiness with them, which others leave behind them, Prov. 12.26. When a worldly wealthy man hath made his will and left all his estate to such and such, what hath he left himself to carry away with him, but the anguish and misery of a guilty conscience, and the expectation of worse?

Ʋse 1. To shew the excellency of godly men above others; they carry the happinesse with them, which others leave behind them,