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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
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Reason 2 From Gods putting the world into our hearts, verse 11. where by the world is meant, First, not only the creatures, the world of them; Secondly, but chiefly the world of changes of the creatures, of which Solomon here speaketh; hath put the world into their hearts, implieth that God hath put into our hearts, First, some desire and delight to search and find out the work of God in all the changes that pass over us. So putting into the heart implieth desire and delight in a thing, Psalm 40.8. Secondly, ability to do it, Jer. 31.33. Both together are expressed by that phrase, Revel. 17.17. The ground of which is our impotency and impossibility, without this putting the world into our hearts, that ever we should find out the work of God from beginning to the end, Text verse 11.
Reason 2 From Gods putting the world into our hearts, verse 11. where by the world is meant, First, not onely the creatures, the world of them; Secondly, but chiefly the world of changes of the creatures, of which Solomon here speaketh; hath put the world into their hearts, implyeth that God hath put into our hearts, First, some desire and delight to search and finde out the work of God in all the changes that passe over us. So putting into the heart implyeth desire and delight in a thing, Psalm 40.8. Secondly, ability to doe it, Jer. 31.33. Both together are expressed by that phrase, Revel. 17.17. The ground of which is our impotency and impossibility, without this putting the world into our hearts, that ever we should finde out the work of God from beginning to the end, Text verse 11.
Use 1. To stir us up to observe add find out the work of God in every change of estate that passeth over us: It is else a brutishness in our selves,