A posing question, put by the wise man, viz. Solomon, to the wisest men concerning making a judgment of the temporal conditions : wherein you have the ignorance of man (in knowing, what is good, or evil, for man in this life) discovered, together, with the mistakes that flow from it : and the great question resolved, viz. whether the knowledg of, what is good for a man in this life, be so hid from man, that no man can attain it / preached at the weekly lecture at Upton ... by Benjamin Baxter ...

Title

A posing question, put by the wise man, viz. Solomon, to the wisest men concerning making a judgment of the temporal conditions : wherein you have the ignorance of man (in knowing, what is good, or evil, for man in this life) discovered, together, with the mistakes that flow from it : and the great question resolved, viz. whether the knowledg of, what is good for a man in this life, be so hid from man, that no man can attain it / preached at the weekly lecture at Upton ... by Benjamin Baxter ...

Author

Baxter, Benjamin, Preacher of the Gospel.

Publication

London :: Printed for George Sawbridge ...,

1662.

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Subject terms

Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes VI, 12 -- Sermons.

Good and evil -- Sermons.

Sermons, English -- 17th century.

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"A posing question, put by the wise man, viz. Solomon, to the wisest men concerning making a judgment of the temporal conditions : wherein you have the ignorance of man (in knowing, what is good, or evil, for man in this life) discovered, together, with the mistakes that flow from it : and the great question resolved, viz. whether the knowledg of, what is good for a man in this life, be so hid from man, that no man can attain it / preached at the weekly lecture at Upton ... by Benjamin Baxter ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26847.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the much HONOURED, AND TRULY VERTUOUS, Mrs. PENELOPE LECHMERE; Wife to Nicholas Lechmere, of HANLY-CASTLE, Esq
• to the reader
• THE CONTENTS.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
• publisher's advertisement
• A POSING QUESTION.
  • CHAPTER I.
    • 1. Distinction is this;
    • 2. Distinction;
    • 3. Distinction;
    • 4. Distinction.
    • 5. Distinction:
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
    • question - 1
    • question - 2
    • question - 2
  • CHAP. V.
    • The Second Question.
    • answer - 2
    • The Third Question, is This:
  • CHAP. VI.
    • The Application.
    • application - 2
    • application - 3
    • Thus I have examined the Grounds, upon which many go, in making a Judgment of a Prosperous Condition. And from all that hath been said, their Mistakes will appear, by considering of these fol∣lowing Queries.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
    • The Second Information.
    • answer
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.