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A34666	A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Tuckney, Anthony, 1599-1670.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6413; ESTC R20578	202,192	290

the beginning of it the beginning of it may be harsh and unpleasant but the end of it is wholsome and medicinable v. 8. Fourthly from the excellency of the patient in spirit as otherwise so especially in hearing and bearing the reproofs of the wise above the proud in spirit v. 8. Whereupon he inferreth a grave and wise admonition not to be of an hasty spirit to anger neither in hearing reproofs nor generally in any other case taken from the proper subject of the residence of anger for Anger resteth in the bosome of fools vers 9. Doctr. It is better to heare and bear the rebuke of the wise with submission and patience then with oppression and passion with pride and anger This seemeth to be the very proper scope of Solomons words in this place 2 Sam. 12.7 to 13. 2 Chron. 19.2 3 4. 1 Kings 22.8 Let not the King say so Mat. 16.23 Gal. 2.11 to 14. Reason 1. From the madnesse that a wise man shall fall into by oppressing a wise Reprover in that first he wil distemper and enrage himselfe 2 Chron. 16.10 Secondly he will destroy the heart and life of the gift of reproofe It will no more profit then Physick vomited up or a plaister cast aside Thirdly he may also distemper and enrage the reprover Jer. 20.7 8 9. v. 14 to 20. At least it wil force him to keep silence Amos 5.10 13. This may be referred to the second Reason 2. From the excellency of the word of reproofe in the end above what it appeareth in the beginning Psalm 141. 5. Prov. 28.23 Physick may be bitter and loathsome at first yet health by it recompenceth that Reason 3. From the excellency of the patient in spirit above the proud in spirit vers 8. Patience first possesseth the soule Luke 21.19 Secondly inheriteth promises Heb. 6.12 Thirdly it maketh us perfect Jam. 1.4 Reason 4. Implied in the Text vers 8. from the root of all rejection of reproofe which is pride of spirit Prov. 13.1 15 12. Pride first God abhorreth and scorneth and resisteth 1 Pet. 5.5 Psal 138.6 Prov. 3.34 Secondly is the presage of sudden destruction Prov. 29.1 Vse 1. To teach us to eschew all oppression especially of our reprovers It argueth us and maketh us mad Prov. 28.16 It discourageth a reprover from putting forth the faithfulnesse of his brotherly love Jer. 20.9 Amos 5.13 Yea he is now excused in his silence Matth. 7.6 It eateth out the heart and life of a gift of the reproofe given 1 Kings 22.8 v. 27 28. 2 Kings 5.12 13. Vse 2. To teach us to be patient in hearing and bearing reproofs The end of them is better then the beginning the beginning may seem harsh and bitter but the end is wholsome and comfortable as of all affliction Heb. 12.11 2 Cor. 1.6 7. chap 7 8 9 10 11. It is not meant of all things universally that their end is better then their beginning for it is otherwise in some things 2 Pet. 2.20 Matth. 12.45 Prov. 20.21 But it holdeth in this duty of Admonition and all Afflictions inward and outward to the godly All impatience here argueth pride of spirit as appeareth by the opposition Text v. 8. Vse 3. To teach us to expresse patience rather then pride and to prefer it both in our judgements and in our practice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a man of a long breath which argueth a patient spirit men of a short breath are soon hot men of hot hearts breath quick and short as in cholerick and aguish men Patient in spirit exceeds the sproud first in understanding and wisdom Prov. 17.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 frigidus spiritû a man of a coole spirit is of great understanding Secondly in strength and courage Prov. 25.28 16.32 Thirdly in honour Prov. 22.4 Fourthly in profiting by all means of grace In word Luke 8.15 In affections Rom. 5.3 4 5. Some think it their excellency and magnanimity to bear no coals at any mans hand but to give every man as good as he brings Patience they condemn for cowardise but the Spirit of God judgeth otherwise Eccles 7. v. 9. 9. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles DOctrine 1. To be of an hasty spirit to anger God forbids it to his people Prov 14.17 Jam. 1.19 Prov. 16.32 The spirit is hasty to anger when anger ariseth First without cause Gen. 4.5 6. Jonah 4.9 This is hasting before the cause Secondly without measure passing the bounds 1. Of our calling Acts 7.26 27. Gen. 34.25 with 49.7 2. Of love First As when instead of brotherly admonition we fall to clamour rayling scolding not reproving sin by Scripture names and arguments but vexatious termes Eph. 4.31 Secondly When we are not fit to pray for those we are angry with Exod. 32.19 30 31 32. 1 Sam. 8.6 with 1 Sam. 12.23 15.35 Thirdly Of reason Luke 6.11 Acts 22.23 2 Chron. 28.9 Fourthly Of Justice Zach. 1.15 Fifthly Of due season 1. After sun-setting Eph. 4.26 27. 2. After the offenders acknowledgement of his offence Luke 17.3 4. And these are hasting before the measure or proportion of the cause Reason 1. From the proper subject of the residence and rest of anger It resteth in the bosome of fooles Text Wherein Solomon takes of an excuse which men are wont to make of their holinesse Though I be somewhat hasty yet I thanke God anger doth not rest with me Yes saith Solomon If thou beest hasty anger resteth with thee and argueth thee a fool For a man could not have anger so ready at hand hastily if it did not rest with him the habit of sinful anger resteth there though the act be quickly transient Object Cholerick men are soon stirred and yet they are not all fooles the fools are commonly sanguine as the simple light fond fool or flegmatick as the dull Asse fool or melancholick as the lunatick fool Answ A cholerick fool is a frantick fool Every complexion in excesse is subject to folly yea to madnesse but if choler be subdued to reason cholerick men though they could be soon hasty if they see cause yet will not be where there is none A man of quick speed for race yet will not run till he see cause Quest But what folly is in Anger Answ First Rashnesse Isai 32.4 Secondly Stiffenesse Jonah 4.9 blinde wilfulnesse Thirdly Outragiousnesse Prov. 27.4 Fourthly Unprofitablenesse Anger unfitteth a man First To do good Jam. 1.20 Secondly To take good 2 Kings 5.12 As a man when his house is all on a light fire himselfe in the midst of it can heare no direction given him from without nor himselfe able to doe ought within So is a man in a burning anger neither able to direct himselfe nor to take counsel from others Reason 2. From the Image of God which should shine forth in us He is slow to anger Psal 103.8 Vse To cast discouragement as it were coole water

out And yet whilest there is life in the body both water and sand passe through little veines into the bladder So by the like secret passages doth the Cisterne of the Stomacke convey phlegme to the Lungs even to the stifling of them And upon this stoppage of the Lungs with phlegme that the wheele cannot turne the Aire or breath up and downe in and out followeth rutling in the Throat breaking off the motion of the Lungs and so death suddenly followeth Doctr 1. The wisdome of God would have young men to take particular and special notice of the decayes and infirmities of old age and by all and every of them to be stirred up to the remembrance of their Creator in the dayes of their youth Solomon the eldest son of wisdome reckoneth up these infirmities of Age not to shew his skill but to teach us to discerne these and to provoke us by every one of them and much more by all together to remember our Creator early Reason 1. From our backwardnesse to take notice of these decayes in our selves much lesse in others and most of all in our young time when there are no cords in our death Hos 7.9 Reason 2. From the unlistinesse and undisposednesse of old age to attend spiritual duties in the midst of bodily infirmities As in Aaron in like bitternesse Levit. 10.19 And in the Israelites in anguish Exod. 6.9 Reason 3. From the unsupportable wearisomnesse of these evils unto old age when it is not eased and supported by grace Vse 1. To shew us the many bitter fruits of the sin of our first Parents even to our bodies 1. Death 2. Strong cords to Death Vse 2. To teach us both the lessons Solomon here calleth upon us to learne 1. The remembrance of these infirmities 2. The remembrance of our Creator by them and that in our youth before they befal us in age Object But what can these crosses and the remembrance of them doe to a kindly worke of conversion They are all but punishments of sin and so sanctions of the law and the law maketh nothing perfect Heb. 7.19 Answ First Yet no commandement of God is vaine when the spirit coworketh Secondly These infirmities as the law it selfe drive us to Christ Gal. 3.24 And he 1. Taketh away our sins John 1.29 2. Beareth our infirmities Matth. 8.17 Psal 103.3 and he supporteth us in them Isai 46.4 40 28. to 31. 3. He reneweth the inner man with proportionable strength and comfort 2 Cor. 4.16 Vse 3. To comfort godly old men in that God taketh particular notice of all our decayes and infirmities Eccles 12.7 7. Then shall the dust returne to the Earth as it was and the spirit shall returne unto God who gave it COherence see in verse 2. In these words are set forth First The first and last condition of the body in regard of its material cause Dust returneth to the Earth out of which it was taken Secondly The first and last condition of the soul in regard of the efficient cause and disposing hand The spitit returneth to God that gave it Meaning Dust By a Metonimy of the material cause for the effect Dust for mans body made of Dust Gen. 2.7 Returne to the Earth First By burial in the Earth after the manner of the Jewes Though in burning and drowning it finally returneth to Dust to Earth also Secondly By rotting in the Grave and dissolving to Earth at last Spirit Soule as being here opposed to the body Returturneth to God Not every soul to dwell with him for here the speech is of all men but to be disposed of by him for his final estate That gave it First By breathing it into his face at the first Creation Secondly By forming every soul of a sinful matter of the soules of the Parents or of the spirituous part of their seed Zach. 12.1 Doctr. 1. As our bodies being made of Dust doe in Death reture to Dust so our soules being given us of God returne againe to God Gen. 2.7 The body is made not of the heart of the Earth that is rich in mettals nor of the soyle of the Earth that is rich in fruits nor of the sand of the Earth which is profitable for Ballast for houre-glasses or for a Sea bound Jer. 5.22 but of the dust of the Earth which of all the rest is most unprofitable like unsavoury Salt Matth. 5.13 Stones are firme matter Clay tough but dust easily dislipated and scattered with every blast of winde Object But is not our body mixt of the foure Elements Answ Yes Reason 1. For all these are found in us our spirits are fiery our breath is airy our bloud and humours watery our flesh and bones muscles and sinewes have much Earthly matter in them Reason 2. We are nourished by all these Elements Reason 3 We are dissolved into all these Elements But yet God first tooke dust then wetted it and made Clay of it and fashioned it into the forme of humane body hence Job 4.19 The first foundation and matter was dust clay made of it and our bodies of clay Dust only is expressed as being first and predominant Vse 1. For instruction to all men First To behold Gods wonderful power wisdome and goodnesse who out of a dust-heap hath formed such a curious and glorious worke Psal 139.14 All the Divels in hell cannot suddenly make a Louse of dust Exod. 8.18 19. and Moses and Aaron did make but Lice of dust verse 17. Secondly To be lowly and humble-minded especially when we come in Gods presence Gen. 18.27 Isai 45.9 1 Kings 8.27 Secondly To be mindful of our mortality Gen. 3.19 every blast of Gods displeasure scattereth our dusty Tabernacle even of great men Isai● 40.15 23 24. And therefore to remember our Creator and prepare for a change Eccles 12.1 7. Vse 2. For comfort to the godly First He will not deal with us after our sinnes Psal 103.13 14. Secondly To encourage us against the feare of men whom the moth shall chavel to dust Isai 51.7 8. To strengthen our faith in Gods power to raise us 1. Out of outward abasement 1 Sam. 2.8 2. Out of inward abasement Psal 119.25 And 3. out of the grave Dan. 12.2 Our bodies shall returne to dust that is they shall dye corrupt and returne to dust Gen. 3.19 hence Job 17.13 14 21 26 24 20. It so falleth out to great men Psal 82.7 and meane wise men and fooles Psal 49.10 rich men and poore Psal 49.10 16 17. good men and bad Psal 30.9 and all men Job 30 23. Isai 40.6 7. except onely Christ who saw no corruption and so no dust Acts 2 31. and such as remaine alive at the last day 1 Cor. 15.51 1 Thes 4.17 Reason 1. From the wages of sin Rom. 15.12 c. Reason 2. To root out the root of sin Rom. 6.7 Original sin is fitly compared by Epiphanius to a wilde Fig Tree rooted in the joynts of the stone-wall of