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…

Doct. 1. He that shall live in the best times of the best Commonwealths, may see seats of Judgements and Justice corrupted with wickedness and iniquity. The word wickedness signifieth both, First, Ungodliness, 2 Sam. 22.22 Secondly, Unrighteousness or iniquity, Isai. 58, 4, 6. Solomon speaketh not of Markers, or Taverns, or Stews, or Mountains of prey (Stand-gate Hole, Shooters Hill, Black Heath, Salisbury Plain, &c.) but of Seats of law and justice, and that not in the reign of wicked Tyrants, Saul, Ahab, Jezebel, or the like, but in the times wherein himself lived, ⟨p. 69⟩which were the best which the best Commonwealth, the Commonwealth of Israel, ever saw, even the times of David and Solomon. In Davids time, 2 Sam. 19, 24, to 30, with 16.4. In his time and Solomons, Eccles. 10, 5, 6, 7. 1 Kings 11.6, 7, 8, and 12, 4. In Asas time, 2 Chron. 16.10. In Jehoshaphat's, 2 Chron. 18, 1, & 20, 33, to 37. In Uzziah's and Jothans, Isai. 1.21, 22, 23, & 5, 7, & 3, 12, 15. In Hezekiahs, Micah 7, 3, 4, & 3, 9, to 12. with Jer. 26, 18. In Josiahs, Zeph. 1.1, 9, & 3, 1.3.

Doct. 1. He that shall live in the best times of the best Commonwealths, may see seats of Judgements and Justice corrupted with wickednesse and iniquity. The word wickednesse signifieth both, First, Ungodlinesse,