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Ecclesiastes, otherwise called the Preacher

Containing Salomons Sermons or Commentaries (as it may probably be collected) vpon the 49. Psalme of Dauid his father. Compendiously abridged, and also paraphrastically dilated in English poesie, according to the analogie of Scripture, and consent of the most approued writer thereof. Composed by H. L. Gentleman [i.e. Henry Lok]. Whereunto are annexed sundrie Sonets of Christian Passions heretofore printed, and now corrected and augmented, with other affectionate Sonets of a feeling conscience of the same Authors
Lok, Henry
  
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To the vertuous Lady, the Lady Woollie.
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Certaine poems to the Authour of the worke.
  
To the worke.
  
To the Author.
  
TO THE QVEENES MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE.
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[1. These sacred words king Dauids son did preach, who Israel taught ]
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CONSIO I.
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Chap. 1.
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[Chap. 2.]
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Chap. 3.
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[Chap. 4.]
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CONSIO. II.
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Chap. 5.
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Chap. 6.
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[Chap. 7.]
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[Chap. 8.]
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CONSIO. III.
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Chap. 9.
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[Chap. 10.]
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[Chap. 11.]
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Chap. 12.
  
Adue to worlds vaine delight.
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Sundry Psalmes of Dauid translated into verse, as briefly and significantly as the scope of the text will suffer; by the same Author.
  
Psalmes 27.
  
Psalme. 71.
  
Psalme. 119.
  
Psalme. 121.
  
Psalme. 130.
  
Lords Prayer.

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1. All this I know that wise & iust are Gods, whose loue showes not,
2. By hap they haue: wise, fooles, good, bad, are subiect to like lot.

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It resteth now my part to perfect that,

I haue surely giuen mine hart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth either loue or hatred of all that is before them.


I in my former speeches haue begunne,
That I may hit the marke I aymed at,
And so my course vnto your comfort runne,
That I may see that some, haue profit wonne.
Which I will do by laying plaine to thee,
The proofes which both by good and bad I make,
Their weale, nor woe, no perfect markes to bee
Of loue or hate of God, from whom we take
All powre, and all successe: and vaine are they
That mens intentions by their issue way.

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For much a like, you all mens states shall find,

Al things come a like to all: and the same condition is to the iust, and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, & to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oth.


And like euents to good and bad befall,
To wisest men, as men most grossely blind,
To rich, as poore, and wretchedst man of all,
For in this life you none can happie call.
Obserue the man that is of honest mind,
And marke the most deceitfull man aliue,
Looke on the Athiest most profane by kind,
And holy man, and you shall see them thriue,
Both oft a like, the foule blaspheming wight,
As he that prayes, and serues God day and night.
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