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…

The meaning of the words cannot be, that every work of God is everlasting: For no work of God is so, but the Angels and souls of men, the highest Heavens, and the bodies also of men after the Resurrection. But whatsoever God doth, that shall be for ever; to wit, It shall take place in every Age. It is not (to wit for the creature) to add to it. It is not to take away from it, Psalm 33.9, 10, 11. Eph. 1.11. Job 23.13, 14. Matth. 5.36. & 6.27. Prov. 19:21. & 29.26. John 19.10, 11. Some grant a general concourse of Gods providence to every thing done by the creature, seeing he sustaineth all things in their Life, Motion, Being; but do not acknowledge a special concourse to the producing of each particular act, as inclining to it, and determining of it, unless the act be supernatural. But surely, as God inclineth and determineth the will by gifts of grace, by motions of the spirit (exciting and enlarging the heart) and good objects unto spiritual acts; so doth he incline natural agents of natural acts by natural dispositions; and voluntary Agents to moral and civil acts by moral and civil Dispositions, Motions, Objects, Exod. 12.36. And casual Agents to casual events by casual occurrences.

The meaning of the words cannot be, that every work of God is everlasting: For no work of God is so, but the Angels and soules of men, the highest Heavens, and the bodies also of men after the Resurrection. But whatsoever God doth, that shall be for ever; to wit, It shall take place in every Age. It is not (to wit for the creature) to adde to it. It is not to take away from it, Psalme 33.9, 10, 11