The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

1. Consider the Vanity of all earthly things, which appeareth by the Testimony of Solomon, whom God for his Wisdom chose, as it were, to be the Fore-man of a grand-Inquest empanelled to make enquiry into the state of the World, and the things therein. Having seen, and experienced, and suck▪d out the juice, and even extracted the Spirits of all worldly things, to make the fuller proof of what there was in them; at length he gives in his verdict, that they were mere vanity, not only vain, but vanity in the abstract, and therefore altogether ineffectual to render a man truly happy, which he layeth down in this proposition, Eccles. 1. 2. Vanity of Vanities, vanity of vanities, all is vanity, that is, All worldly things are most vain, for thus the superlative degree in the Hebrew is usually expressed; as the highest Heaven, is called the Heaven of Heavens; the most excellent Song, the Song of Songs.

1. Consider the Vanity of all earthly things, which appeareth by the Testimony of Solomon, whom God for his Wisdom chose, as it were, to be the Fore-man of a grand-Inquest empanelled to make enquiry into the state of the World, and the things therein. Having seen, and experienced, and suck▪d out the juice, and even extracted the Spirits of all worldly things, to make the fuller proof of what there was in them; at length he gives in his verdict, that they were meer vanity, not only vain, but vanity in the abstract, and therefore altogether ineffectual to render a man truly happy, which he layeth down in this proposition, Eccles. 1. 2. Vanity of Vanities, vanity of vanities, all is vanity, that is, All worldly things are most vain, for thus the superlative degree in the Hebrew is usually expressed; as the highest Heaven, is called the Heaven of Heavens; the most excellent Song, the Song of Songs.

All worldly things are said to be extremely vain,