An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
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An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
Author
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
Publication
At London :: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate,
An. 1573.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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He that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that lo∣ueth riches, shall be without the fruite therof: this also is a vanitie. When goods increase, they are in∣creased that eate them: and what good cōmeth to the owners there∣of, but the beholding of them with their eyes?
THis belongeth to that he sayd in the first chapiter: The eare is not satis∣fied with hearing, nor the eye with se∣ing. Here he treateth of the vanitie and desires of mans hart. One worlde was not inough for Alexander. So fareth it in all other affayres, honours, ryches. &c. For so goeth the miserable life of man, that a couetous man is an exam∣ple to all men. He hath money, and yet
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is he not satisfied, yea he enioyeth it not being present, onely he thyrsteth after other that he hath not.
What els therfore is a couetous man, but an hart stretched out to that it hath not, and turned from that it hath? Ther∣fore this is a vanitie of the hart: were it not better to be content with things pre∣sent, and to cast of the care of thinges to come? Souldiours are happier then co∣uetous men, although they be the worste of all other men, & liue most hardly. For els all men be couetous, except such in whom other lyke vices put couetousnes away. But the godly onely haue this be∣nefite, that they are contēted with things presēt, and can vse them also with mirth and thankes geeuing. A couetous man hath no greater mouth, belly, &c. then a godly poore man, nor digesteth no more then he, and yet is he contented with a litle, yea he is riche, where the couetous in the middle of his riches is a begger. These things men are taught both hole∣somly and godlyly, but the fleshe is care∣les say we, or doe we, what we will.