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Sermons preached
Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SERMON XIV.
ECCL. 9. 11. I returned, and saw under the Sun, that the Race is not to the Swift, nor the Battle to the Strong, neither yet Bread to the Wise, nor yet Riches to Men of Understanding, nor yet Favour to Men of Skill; but Time and Chance happeneth to them all.
ECCL. 9. 11. I returned, and saw under the Sun, that the Race is not to the Swift, nor the Battel to the Strong, neither yet Bread to the Wise, nor yet Riches to Men of Understanding, nor yet Favour to Men of Skill; but Time and Chance happeneth to them all.
The whole Book is a search after true Happiness. The particular Paragraph, whereof the Text is a Branch, proveth that it cannot be obtained in this World, because of the various Events of God's powerful and unsearchable Providence. The Discourse beginneth, Chap. 8. 16, 17. When I applied my Heart to know Wisdom, and to see the business which is done upon the Earth, then I beheld all the works of God, that a Man cannot find out the work which is done under the Sun; because though a Man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further, though a Wise Man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. God's Providence in the Government of the World is secret. When a wise Man hath applied his Mind to reconcile all the seeming incongruities of it, he cannot get a clear and satisfying account of all the proceedings