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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16959	A comment vpon Coheleth or Ecclesiastes framed for the instruction of Princf [sic] Henri our hope. By Hugh Broughton.	Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.	1605 (1605)	STC 3849.5; ESTC S106732	33,234	88

to aske vvhy vvere the former dayes better then these VVisdome is good vvith vvelth vvhile men liue Both bring a sheltre But vvisdome is the better it saueth him that hath it And here vvisdome shevveth it selfe euen in hamblenes not hoping to streighten that vvhich God hath made croked rejoyce vvith the rejoycing and vvepe vvith the vveping dayes God hath so set one by the other that none can finde fault The just perisheth in too straite justice the toylesome holdeth one long in his toyle Be not toylsome to much nor too vvise and play not the foole it vvill bring death before the ordinarie course It is good to kepe betvvixt both as they that feare God vvill VVisdome vvill strengthen more then ten rulers though in many thinges all stumble And this poinct of vvisdome hath great vse not to regard all evel tongues for all speak evell of others the tōgue cā not be bridled This Kohe leth tried sought still to find reasons for all cariages But that vvas far off Novv the far off and the depe vvho can find out But in trying the madnes of folk Koheleth found by his thousand vvives that an evell vvomā vvas bitterer then death This he found examining one thing by an other to find out devises But this he could not find out though in men one of a thousand Koheleth vvold find out the subtilest devises yet of a subtile vvomans devises in all that number he could not They made him build houses to strange Gods vvhervpon the Kingdome first rented aftervvardes perished And this Koheleth found generally true that God made Adam plain but they found out many invētiones And so doe their children in all folly And vvho is as the vvise man vvho is like him that knovveth the nature of matters VVisdome lighteth the face of a man and the hardenes of his face vvilbe changed As vnlernednes bredeth boldnes and judgement lothnes to be medling And it avoideth the calamities that come from governoures oppression Herein visdome vvold kepe the Kinges lavves in the Lord and not resist auctority for he earieth not the svvord in vain But he that doth vvell shall have praise of the King But here men brede them selves much sorovv not knovving vvhat vvill befall them And this vanitie is comon that men consider not rulers nor subiectes hovv sodenly death vnexorable against vvhich ther is no striving ceaseth vpon men By vvant of vvisdome herein men vvilbe ruling men to their ovvne harme In that case Koheleth savv the vvicked buried vvhen they vvent avvay and passed from the holy place of judgement vvere forgottē in the citie vvher they had so done And this vanitie might teach that no throneacceptable vnto God can be found in this vvorld But by not knovving Gods dealing herein men fill this vvorld vvith vanity Because judgemēt is not shevved quickly vpon evel vvorkes mens hartes be fully caried to doe mischief But the vvise Koheleth vvould tell though the vvicked doe vvickedly an hundreth fould and live long yet it shal be vvell vvith the Godly not vvith the vvicked vvhose dayes are but a shadovv An other secret government of God teacheth the vanity of this life that the just are plagued and the vvicked prosper This teacheth that ther is an other vvorld of recompense as in the Parable of Lazarus and Dives In this diversity quiet enioyng of the present vvelth is all that a man can have of his travell And for mans busines restles and slepelesse not the vvisest can see the reason of Gods vvorkes By outvvard prosperity the just and vnjust are not discovered often tymes Hence Epicures exhort one an other vvith longe orationes to present pleasures vvhile not the svvift have the gool nor the valiant the victory nor the vvise the bread nor the cunning favour but a tyme and occurrant befalleth all And men knovv no more their time then fish or foule that be caught in a net and snare VVithout speciall vvisdome this vvill not be shunned VVisdome is soone contemned This example may be pregnant A litle citie besieged of a great King by a poore mans vvisdome hath ben saved But that poore man is soone forgotten yet vvisdome is better then strength though the vvisdome of the poore is contemned his vvordes are not heard The vvordes of the vvise in quietnes are heard more then the cries of Lordes over fooles VVisdome is better then armour of vvarre and one that misseth of it as a Lord over fooles vvill lose much good As one dead flye putrifieth much precious oinctement so a little folly marreth a man precious for vvisdome glory VVisdome is rare and to have the hart on the right hand But to have the hart on the left hand that is comon to the foole vvhose hart faileth in the plain vvay and he telleth all that he is a foole And in such a vvorld vvhat study of the Lavv can brede a blessed throne on earth The Spirit of rulers often riseth against a dutifull subiect as did Salomons against Ieroboam he left his place and fled to Egipt and became the ruine of Salomons throne Here a soft cure might have delayed much sinne An other evel is great and comon appearing notably in the vnlavvfull kingdome of Ephraim The fooles of the ten tribes vvere set on high and false Prophetes and the truly rich sate dovvne lovv Servantes sate on horseback Princes vvalked vpon the ground This people might knovv that great is the vanity of governements here Roboam in Iuda likevvise payd the price of that extolling foolish yonge men and contemning old sages And King Ioas most notably yelding from his rich counsellers to the foolish Idoleservers And his grandfather Ioram greatly vvanted vvisdome that lost all Edoms subjection and advaunced fooles to kill his ovvne bovvels and to dye by torment of bovvels And as Saul by folly hoping to defeate David digged a pit vvhich him self fell into So King Ochozias joyning vvith Israel brake an hedge that the Serpent Iehu stange him And of all Kinges vvanting vvisdome and of all in high place and of ill bent avvay from God these Proverbes vvilbe verified he that removeth stones vvilbe greved by them and he that cleaveth vvood shal be indangered by it yf the iron be blunt and a man vvhett not the edge but be vehemēt in strength vehemency in a blunt cause vvill cause dāger VVisdome from Gods vvordes of right vvill only bring good successe teaching to bevvare of Satans deceites vvher a sting at the first is past cure All the Kings of Israel folovved Ieroboams vvorshipping of calves being so sttong at the first vvithout vsing holy aduise that aftervvardes ther could be no vse of enchanters All the Prophetes vvarninges vvere nothinge all that Ionas vvhale and Nineuie taught all that Osec Amos Esai and Micha told vvroght litle good As deaf adders they stopped their eares and vvold not heare the voice of any inchanter Yet