- ror What ne leaveth behind him 1S nor his, but another Mans. Þ yer # teh ole, and for —_— Works. . . | When once he is dead he ſhall never return into this life to ſee in- CIT our wh pope 1 org MF Noo K, att it ! to whoſe hands his Eſtate falls,and how it is either uſed or abuſed ;
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ever ſeemeth good in his owneyes,{o God will have his time to rec- The Vanity of Oppreſſon, by reaſon of which the Dead and the Unborn are
kon with them, and reQifie alltheſe Diſorders. » In the Prefence better than the Living, 1 3. Of Envy, Sloth, Quarrel, 4=-6:
or at the Judgment-ſeat of Ged.; which is eaſtly underſtood out of Of Coverouſneſs and Selfſbneſs 7. 8. The Advantage of Society and
the foregoing words, the Relative being pur forthe Antecedent, as Frienaſbip, 9 12 The Pooy better than fooliſh Kings, 13. Hes ad
it is Numb.7: 89; Eſth: 9: 25s Job: 18 Z1: Pſa: 14: 5: and 11 4:2. Orir wanced whilſt one boyn King us mae poor, 14, The Peoply never Conveniea
may be rendred then, as this Particle is uſed Pſa: 14: 5: Heſs 2: 15; but rejoicing in Changes, 15, 16, A * Ch, 58; and as it is uſual in other Authors for Adverbs of Place to be put for j & O Ireturned, and conſidered # all the oppreſ- hs - Sug | a rag Saha 4 Pray Bag OE as Fon ſions that are done under the ſun b ; and behold © * mens PraCtiſes or open Afftions, but alſo all their ſecret Thoughts | ;
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the Doubrs, and ſupport the Spirits of good men who are oppreſſed inthis life. : Liftrates or Judges, of which he ſpake, Ch 3; 16: or by any other 18 I ſaid in my heart 4 concerning the eſtate of the | potent Perſons. c None afforded them either pity or ſuccour,either foas of men 6, || thac God might manifeſt them c, and | out of a —_ a ar, diſpoſition, " oo ue - expoling - themſelves thereby to the ſame injuries» oth in themſelves, that they might ſee thatthey themſelves are beaſts d. and becauſe moſt men were ready to joyn with the ſtrongeſt and
dition and deportment in this preſenr World. c God (uffers theſe | ,. :. &11ows, none elſe could or would do ir. e Which is repeated horrible Diſorders among Men,exprefſed wi 10: that he might aiſ- | _ _ Argument both of the great Inhumanity of Men towardsothers
cover men to themſelves, and by permitting theſe Attions, ſhew |; C:1:mity, and of the extream miſery of oppreſfed Perſons.
what ſtrange Creatures they are, and what vile hearts they have 2 * Wherefore Ipraiſed f the dead which are alrea dy * Job T
which Men would not otherwiſe underſtand or believe. See 2 Kin:8: nee . n 17, &c F3, 14. & Heb: thar they are Beaſts to themlelves,cither 1: one to ano- dead g, more than the living which are yet alive 6. Ga. 6. 3
f I judged them more happy,or leſs miſerable. Which he ſeems
Judgment, or themſelves being Judges ; that although God made oniy as T : them Men or reaſonable Creatures, yet they have made themſelves | Men inMiſery,as this is commonlyunderſtood ,butas his ownJudg- Beaſts by their brutilh pra&ices,and that Menconſidered only with | ment. For this is moſt true and certain,that ſerting aſide the ad- reſpe& unto the preſent Life,which 1s the only thing valued and re. | vantage which thisLife gives him for theConcerns of the furure Life garded by moſt Men,and the vanity whereof is the principal Subje& which Solomon doth not meddle. with inthe preſent Debate;and con- of this Book, are as vain and miſerable Creatures as the Beaſts them= fidering the Uncertainty, and Vanity, and manifold Vexations 6
felves, the great Differences between Men and Beaſts being ſuch as , 5. ind,and cutward Calanutice vfrhe preſentLife,a wile Man _—_
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Chap. IV. ECCLESIASTES, | _—_— | © Not account it worth his while to live, and would chooſe Death ra- | o Into which he was caſt for his Poverty and Debt. p The poor ther than Life. g Thoſe which are quite dead ; who poſſibly are and wiſe Child.q Is oft=times advanced by his wiſdom to the h:gn* F here oppoſed ro them that in reſpett of their deplorable and deſper- eſt Power and Dignity:which was the caſe of Joſ:ph and Aordecar und
rate Condition, are even whilſt they live, called dead men, Iſa: 26: | many others, r That old King who was born of the Royal Race and 19, and faidto die &s/ly, 1 Cor. 15+. 3t. þ Which languiſh under had poſſeſſed his Kingdom for a long time. s Is deprived of his their Preſſures, of whom we can only ſay, as we uſe to ſpeak of Kingdom, either by the Rebellion of his Subje&s provoked by his dying men, they are alive, and that is all, _ Folly, or by the Power of ſome other and wiſer Prince. | Job 3* 2 * Yea, better is hethan both they, which hathnot] 15 Iconſideredall the living z which walk under the 19162! yet been 3, who hath not ſeen & the evil work that is|ſun #, with the ſecond child x that (hal ſtandup yin his done under the ſun. ſtead. | 5 193245 GUh
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