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…

Reason 1. From the nature of God; he is the first and universal cause, Eph. 1.11: Rev. 1.8. Rom. 11.36. and therefore concurreth to every effect. Adam under God is the first cause of all the sons and daughters of men, Acts 17.26. But he is not the cause of all their actions; for he produceth them voluntary Agents: And therefore what they do by choice of their own will, he is no cause of that, seeing he inclineth not, nor determineth their will to it, save only as he propagateth to them natural pravity; else he was not the cause of Cain's murder of Abel, which is more plain in other parents; Causa causae is causa causati, holdeth in natural Agents, not voluntary. But God is the first cause, not only of all causes, but of all effects, First, of good things per se, Jam. 1.17. Hos. 14.8. Secondly, of evil things, by accident or occasion, Acts 4.27, 28. 2 Sam. 12.11, 12.

Reason 1. From the nature of God; he is the first and universal cause, Eph. 1.11: Rev. 1.8. Rom. 11.36. and therefore concurreth to every effect. Adam under God is the first cause of all the sonnes and daughters of men, Acts 17.26. But he is not the cause of all their actions; for he produceth them voluntary Agents: And therefore what they doe by choice of their own will, he is no cause of that, seeing he inclineth not, nor determineth their will to it, save onely as he propagateth to them natural pravity; else he was not the cause of Cain's murder of Abel, which is more plaine in other parents; Causa causae is causa causati, holdeth in natural Agents, not voluntary. But God is the first cause, not onely of all causes, but of all effects, First, of good things per se,