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A02031	A familiar exposition or commentarie on Ecclesiastes VVherein the worlds vanity, and the true felicitie are plainely deciphered. By Thomas Granger, preacher of the Word at Butterwike in East-holland, Lincolne.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1621 (1621)	STC 12178; ESTC S103385	263,009	371

a worldly felicitie to change sinfull wretches into gods But as the most learned could neuer find the one so neither shall the most wise and wealthy euer find the other For this cause doth God lay sore trauaile and crosses on men to humble their pride thereby For we children of Adam would faine be as Gods Gen. 3. 5 6. We striue violently to runne backe into Paradise againe but that is done away and another is set before vs into which earthly dregges haue no desire to enter For the Eele loueth the mudde not the christall Springs and the Toade loueth scumme and ditches not the Pallace Verse 4. I made me great workes I builded houses I planted me Vineyards AN hypotyposis or liuely description of the acting and effecting of his counsell to wit his worldly pompe and magnificence by an enumeration of diuers particulars First he propoundeth the same generally I made me great workes All the workes that I did were curious and costly as mans wit could deuise the manner and the world could afford the matter So that the seate of my Pallace in all the workes thereof was as it were a resemblance of the World and the glory thereof that mine eyes and senses being filled with what pleasures and delights my heart could imagine I might enioy full contentment To which purpose I built me houses most large and spacious whose timber workes were of Cedars and pillars of Almug trees I made me Chambers and Galleries for all vses for necessary vses for delights and pleasures for solitarinesse and priuate meditation for Summer and Winter c. For Cedars and siluer were as plentifull with me as stones in the streetes and Sycomore trees in the dales Of gold I had abundance For there came yeerely sixe hundred sixty sixe talents of gold besides that which I had of Merchant men and spice Merchants of the Kings of Arabia and Gouernours of the Countrey I made me a great throne of Iuory and ouer-laide it with the best gold the like whereof was not in any Kingdome All my drinking vessels were of gold and all my vessels of the Forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold I had also abundance of precious stones Iewels spices oyntments odours and what precious things the earth could affoord were sent to me for presents I had twelue Officers ouer all Israel to prouide victuals for me and my houshold I had for one dayes prouision thirty measures of fine flower and sixty measures of meale ten fat Oxen and an hundred Sheep besides Harts and Roe-bucks and Fallow Deare and fatted Fowle So that the meate of my Table the sitting of my Seruants the attendance of my Ministers and their apparell my Butlers c. were an astonishment to Princes Moreouer I had foure thousand stables of Horses for my Chariots ten Horses in euery Stable forty thousand in all I had foureteene hundred Chariots and twelue hundred Horsemen I made me two hundred Targets of beaten gold sixe hundred sheckles went to one Target I made me also three hundred shields of beaten gold three pound of gold went to one shield Also I was at peace with all Kings which did reuerence to me and sent me presents who were desirous to heare of my wisedome and of my workes My Princes and Officers also were loyall and faithfull to me So that I enioyed the fulnesse of prosperity and security And because no pleasant thing might be wanting to me I planted me vineyards and furnished them with the choysest Vines of all sorts Verse 5. I made me Gardens and Hortyards and I planted trees in them of all kinde of fruits SEcondly I made me also Gardens contriued by the art of the best workemen and filled them with all manner of pleasant plants and hearbes I made me hortyards and planted therein trees of all kindes of fruites pleasant to my sight and delightfull to my taste resembling euen the Garden of GOD. Verse 6. I made me pooles of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees THirdly I made me also Cisternes to conuey waters from the Springs and Fountaines to water my Gardens and Hortyards and other trees therewith in the times of drought to preserue them fresh and greene for the pleasure of mine eyes and to make their flowres and fruites more beautifull and delicious Verse 7. I got me seruants and maidens and had seruants borne in my house also I had great possessions of great and small Cattle aboue all that were in Ierusalem before me FOurthly I got me also men-seruants and maid-seruants such as had beene well trayned vp and were fit for the seruice of Princes both in regard of their persons and qualities I had also others borne in my house the children of Captiues euen the choysest and best qualified of those that had beene taken captiues in the warres Also I had great possessions of Cattle both of Oxen and Sheepe of Horses Camels and Mules partly for the prouision of my House partly for other vses aboue all that were before mee in Ierusalem Verse 8. I gathered me also siluer and gold and the peculiar treasure of Kings and of the Prouinces I got mee men-singers and women-singers and the delights of the sonnes of men as musicall instruments and that of all sorts FIftly also of siluer and gold I had abundance which yeerely came vnto me besides that which came once euerie three yeeres from Tarshish for vessels and vtensils for the beautifying of my house for shields and targets and other vses and other precious treasures which for their rarenesse and beauty Princes value at highest rate and are therefore peculiar to them I got me also men-singers and women-singers that both had perfect skill and pleasant voyces that not onely the shrilnesse of the quauering treble and the grauity of the deepe base and the delightfull mediocrity of the mixt tenor mitigating the sharpenesse of the one and eleuating the flatnesse of the other might refresh my spirits with their pleasant ayre but also that the song it selfe might affect my minde with the lightsome ayre of pleasant thoughts insinuated by the pleasing deceits of harmonicall allurements to remoue the impression of pensiue melancholy and to pacifie the surges of cholericke fancies that such obiects being stolne away from my minde vnawares as cares are by sleepe I might be retracted from the disturbance of intemperate passions I had also the delights of the sonnes of men euen all kindes of musicall Instruments The Hebrew words are Schaddah Schiddoth id est deuastation and deuastations or spoyle and spoyles and signifieth the fairest women taken captiues in the sacking of a City as Xantis Pagnine translateth it which thing was the common custome of old times The words afore-going delights of the sonnes of men import as much being as I thinke more properly related to Solomons three hundred Concubines which were the fairest women of captiuities For as Wife and Children are termed the pleasures of the eyes and Idols the

be reformed which thing must needs pacifie Pauls mind and moue him to commend them rather seeing that to erre is humane frailty but to acknowledge and reforme an errour is grace So that this defence is an excusation including confession deprecation reformation 3 Indignation when a man grieueth at his folly impudence and carelessenesse that he should be so or so ouertaken and misled whereby to displease God to offend his brother to burthen his owne conscience and to giue aduantage to the aduersary 4 Feare which is a sence of Gods displeasure for some sinne committed This remorse bringeth repentance It is contrary to the seruile feare of an euill conscience with hardnesse of heart and to worldly feares 5 Vehement desire namely to seeke for and to obtaine the fauour of God that they might reioyce in his grace againe as they did at their first conuersion for by sinning we grieue the spirit of God and cause him to frowne on vs whose presence and countenance we earnestly desire to be turned towards vs againe as he that through vnkind dealing hauing almost lost his best friend seeketh earnestly to recouer the fulnesse of his former loue which thing is plainely exemplified in Dauid Psal 51. 6 Zeale which is a feruent indeauour to repentance It is mixt of loue and anger or rather here of desire and indignation or sorrow which is all one 7 Reuenge which is a chastening and curbing of our selues vpon consideration of Gods displeasure that we may preuent his iudgements and winne his fauour againe 1 Cor. 11. 30. 31. The whole verse laboureth on a gradation By the exposition of this verse it fully appeareth what the sorrow or indignation is that Solomon here speaketh of The meaning of the words are better is a sad and thoughtfull heart caused by remorse and grudge of conscience tending to repentance and amendment of life then a light heart and variable mind hauing no serious consideration of sinne nor of Gods iudgements in this life nor after this life impressed in it but seeketh rather to extinguish both the more freely to laugh and be fat For by the sadnesse of the countenance c. A confirmation by the effect This sorrow of the heart appearing in the firme and sad countenance maketh the heart more ioyfull and pleasant For as heat expelleth heat so doth godly and penitent sorrow expell feare trouble and despaireful doubtings which oppresse the heart as an heauy weight The reprobate cannot expell this seruile sorrow with penitent or gracious sorrow but by other false remedies seeketh to mitigate and alay the rigour as Diues would haue cooled his heate with a drop of water but one drop of grace in life would haue done more then an Ocean of waters in hell The wicked would be eased of torment but they will giue no glory to God like the nine lepers whether they be liuing or dead they are all for themselues If Diues would as earnestly haue craued but for one drop of grace when he was liuing to haue killed the worme in her breeding his thirst should haue beene quenched But being giuen to the bellie and bodily pleasures he loued not sorrow nor repentance but applied false remedies to the worme laughter and fatnesse He loued not the rebukes of the wise but such as were skilfull to feede his humors These words may also be expounded thus By the sad countenance and sober behauiour the hearts of one another are made better vaine fancies and lustfull thoughts are checked and curbed sinfull words and euill deeds following them are preuented The sequell or argument of vanitie gathered by the comparison is as before and so throughout the Chapter Verse 4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth A Third meanes of mortification is sober conuersation The heart of the wise c. As there is sorrow and remorse in the heart and conscience of the wise so there is sadnesse in the countenance and also sober behauiour sober apparrell and sober compaine The heart of the wise man is affected to such places and companies as he may haue benefit by to his edification in knowledge and godlinesse Such things he loueth to heare to speake and to relate as may make both himselfe and others the better Prou. 15. 30. Good hearing maketh his bones fat and so of the seeing also The heart of him that hath vnderstanding seeketh knowledge that is moueth his lippes eyes and eares to seeke for increase of that holy wisedome wherewith he is in some good measure already indued For to him that hath shall be giuen Therefore he is ready also to frequent the houses of mourning a synecdoche of the speciall and the societie of mourners such as are well acquainted with the crosse exercised in temptations and men of sober carriage whereby he receiueth more comfort and ease of heart than by all festiuall and merry meetings where there is commonly vanity enough and matter of griefe to him that seriously thinketh on his latter end and the account of euery idle word As the nature and kinde of the seede and roote is such like is the sappe and shape of the tree such or such places it desires to grow in and among such or such other trees If it hath place and companie according to his liking than it prospereth flourisheth and reioyceth if not yet it liueth brancheth and fructifieth though poorely as the willow in the forrest the hys●p on the wall wheat in light sand and rapes in stiffe clay Euery thing desireth his proper place and company with other fotures according to his kinde to attaine the perfection and flourishing state of his kinde which thing if it cannot doe yet is it prudent and shiftie and will reape the most commoditie to it selfe that may be without any losse through improuidence and negligence But if it be in a so●le contrarie to his kinde it is much discouraged his fruits are vnkindely and imperfect his sappe is corrupted and much ai●ered by the qualitie of his food or humour c. yet will it retaine the kinde or else dye The seed or root of man is his heart as the heart or spirit of man is such is the man Mens c●●usque is est quisque And though of all creatures he be most variable and can personate himselfe infinite wayes yet doth his spirit incline him one way The Adamant in the diall is fickle it is vncertaine what coast it most affecteth or rather what his naturall position is being violently agitated but when disturbance ceaseth it resteth on the north-pole So foxe to the kinde A wise mans heart is his ●oote and such like are his thoughts countenance words workes carriage And as the man in his kinde nature and disposition is such soile he re●●yceth to grow in such things he loues to heare by voyce or writings such companies he frequenteth this he extracteth that he reiecteth as his spirit is For