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THE SECOND PART.
Holding forth the emptiness and vanity of all sublunary enjoyments, by general arguments taken, from the common nature of all created com∣forts, with a transition to the next treatise.
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Holding forth the emptiness and vanity of all sublunary enjoyments, by general arguments taken, from the common nature of all created com∣forts, with a transition to the next treatise.
Temporal enjoyments,
Personal endowments external.
Phil. 3: 8.
Prosperity.
Psal. 30: 6.
Job 1: 21. Psal. 36: 7.
Mat. 28: 20.
Riches.
Honours.
Psal. 82: 6, 7.
Isa. 40: 15.
Psal. 146: 3, 4. Mic. 7: 5.
Psal. 25: 10. Heb. 12: 5.
Wisedome and know∣ledge.
Isa. 29: 14.—33: 18. 1 Cor. 1: 20. Eccl. 1: 17, 18.
1 Cor 1: 30.
Sensual pleasures.
Mal. 4: 2. Joh. 4: 14.
Apparel and orna∣ments.
Mat. 22: 11, 12.
Common arguments. 1. From their unconstancy, inutility and inequality to Man.
Eccl. 1: 1, 3.
Eccl. 2: 15.
Phil. 3: 8.
2. They are full of thorny cares and ve∣xations.
Eccl. 1: 1, 2, 3.
3. Emptiness, being unsatis∣factory.
Eccl. 1: 5.—5: 10.
4. They are Finite and temporal.
5. Levity and mutabi∣lity.
Like the Sea ebbing and flowing. Ecc. 2: 4. to 11.
Imper∣fection and mixture.
Heb. 4: 9.
2 Pet. 1: 19.
Transition to the next treatise.
Mal. 4: 2.