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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06504	An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.; Ecclesiastes odder prediger Salomo. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.	1573 (1573)	STC 16979; ESTC S105591	154,755	384

teach in this booke Though a man lyue many yeares and in them all reioyce yet he shall remember the dayes of darkenes because they are many all that commeth is vanitie THis is a very comprecation or prayer as I sayd lyke as he should saye that age would I faine see that had obserued the contentes of this booke the same were an excellēt man. Looke how pleasaunt ioyfull the Sun light is so pleasaunt a thing it is to sée a man many yeares inured with the experience of these matters yet meary at his hart and conteyning all worldy Daungers He should sée in déede much darkenes that is myseries of this worlde But this should delight him that he could set them lighter as one knowing and perceiuing long before that this were the state and trade of the worlde The xii Chapiter Be meary therfore O young man in thine youth and let thine hart be glad in thine young daies AFter that he hath described a rare kinde of byrde namely such a man as hath lyued all his life with a meary harte and hath laughed at the troubles malice of the world then he ioyneth to a kinde of exhortation Thou young man therefore sayth he that hast litle experience of the world if thou wilt lyue mearely harken what I write for the and teach thée that thou passe not thy boūdes Liue so as thou mayst contemne the world and ouercome the naughtines thereof And here maist thou sée what Salomon calleth contempt of the world not to forsake our selues or other men but to be conuersaunt in the worlde in the myddle of the broyles thereof but so as we must kéepe a quyet and peaceable harte in all maner of aduersities This it is therefore that he saith If thou wilt attaine to this gole or marke to haue a quiet hart in the myddle of all troubles enure thy selfe with troubles that from thy childhode For so shalt thou safelie stand al stormes and daungers Let thyne hart be glad THat is take prosperitie mearyly when it commeth and be not ouercommed of aduersitie when God sendeth it Thus should youth be brought vp and instructed And vnles youth follow such an admonisher he shall neuer doe lyke a man For youth is ledde altogether with affections is vnskilfull which vnskilfulnes is cause that it cā not beare nor yelde hereafter to the naughtines and ingratefulnes of the world Salomon therefore is an excellent instructer of youth He forbiddeth not ioyes and pleasauntnes as the foolishe masters the Monkes haue done For this is nothing els but of yoūg men to make blockes And as Anselme the veryest Monke of all other sayd to set a great tree in a litle pot Thus these Monkes shut vp their youth in a coupe and forbid them the sight and communication of men because they should learne nor perceaue nothing where as nothing is more daungerous for youth then solytarines The mynde must be well infourmed wyth good vnderstanding and opinions that it be not corrupted wyth the company and familiaritie of naughty men but the body must be conuersaunt in euery thing We must beholde the world and heare it onely sée that we haue a good maister and teacher Therefore we must beware that youth be not in sorrow and solitarines For myrth is as necessary for youth as meate and drinke For the body doth battel through mirth of minde And we must not beginne with the education of the body but with the mynde that it be not corrupted Whē the minde is well taught and enfourmed there the body is soone well gouerned We must therfore beare with youth to be meary and to doe all thinges with gladsomnes of hart onely we must take héede that they be not corrupted with the pleasures of the fleshe For these quaffinges surfetting and amourousnes are not the myrth of the mynde that Salomon here speaketh of but rather the sorrow of the same Walke in the wayes of thyne hart THys place caused me to thinke that all this Chapiter from the beginning was but a kynde of derision and scorne because if a man walke after the wayes of his owne hart it is commōly taken in euill part But we must sticke to the argument and consequēce of the text This it is then that he sayth when thine hart is well taught and enstructed no ioy or myrth shall be able to hurt it so that it be lawfull ioye and no such naughty and wofull myrth as I spake of before And walk in the sight of thine eyes THat is to say enioy that that cōmeth to thy sight Vexe not thy selfe about thinges to come least thou doe as the Monkes doe of whom there were some namely Syluanus the Monke which taught men they shoulde not looke vpon the Sunne They would bereue youth of their sight of hearing of taulking all their senses and shut them vp lyke Capons into a coupe being in déede vngodly and the true Misanthropi that is haters of men Therefore if thou see or heare any pleasaunt matter enioy it so thou offend not agaynst god Appoint or prescribe thy selfe no rules in this behalfe but enioy euery thing in the feare of god Sée thou follow not the peruerse pleasures of the worlde which will corrupt thy mynde Thus far for one part Put away greefe out of thyne hart and cause euill to depart from thy fleshe for childehode and youth are vanitie IT is as much as if he should say euen as I would haue thée stayed by the feare of God from following filthy noysome pleasures so woulde I keepe thee from being ouercommed with sorrowes and aduersitie Put sorrow therefore out of thy mynde that is vse not to be angry nor to conceaue indignation whē things goe not as thou desirest If any sad or sorowfull matter fall know that it is the state of this world Let other enuy hate and fret at it but doe not thou For such doinges marre the pleasaunt lyfe according to the prouerbe Enuie is the rotting of the bones For enuye is a fretting and a consuming sicknes Let thine hart alwayes be one neyther doe thou corrupt it with ouermuch worldly pleasures ne yet wyth too many worldly griefes c. Put away euill from thy fleshe THat is whatsoeuer may vexe or trouble thée put from thee not that he forbiddeth man to chasten his fleshe but in vayne saith he doost thou vexe thy selfe while thou lettest such thinges trouble thee Frowne not at these matters therefore but be of meary cheare Onely see that thou feare god For a meary countenaunce declareth a meary hart And euen as I will haue thée to be meary in mynde so will I thou be also cherefull of body For childehode and youth c. THat is remember thou art young and set all together in the way of vanitie For youth of it selfe is a vayne thing and led with sundry and diuers passions Be thou wise therfore