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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AD AULAM. SERMON I. WHITEHALL, NOVEMBER 1631. ECCLESIASTES VII. I. A good Name is better than precious Ointment. WHERE the author professeth himself a preacher, it can-.i. Eccle- not be improper to style the treatise a sermon. This book Prelcher'g3 is such, a sermon; and, the preacher being a king, a royal...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AD AULAM. SERMON I. WHITEHALL, NOVEMBER 1631. ECCLESIASTES VII. I. A good Name is better than precious Ointment. WHERE the author professeth himself a preacher, it can-.i. Eccle- not be improper to style the treatise a sermon. This book Prelcher'g3 is such, a sermon; and, the preacher being a king, a royal Sermon; sermon. He took a very large, but withal a very barren text. His text the whole world, with all the pleasures, and profits, and honours, and endeavours, and businesses11, and events that are to be found under the sun. From which so large a text, Eccies.vi. after as exact a survey thereof taken, as unwearied diligence12' 1X- '] in searching, joined with incomparable wisdom in judging, could makef, he could not yet with all his skill raise any more than this one bare and short conclusion, proposed in the very entrance of his sermon, as the only doctrinal point to be insisted upon throughout; Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, Eccl. i. 2. vanity of vanities; all is vanity. This he proveth all along by sundry instances, many in number, and various for the kind, to make the induction perfect; that so, having fully established the main doctrine, which he therefore often incul- cateth in his passage along, that all things in the world are but vanity, he might the more effectually enforce the main use which he intended to infer from it, and reserveth, as good orators use to do, for the close and epilogue of the whole sermon; The year and month in which, a Quidquid agunt homines votum, through Laud's influence, Sander- timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discur- son was made Chaplain in Ordinary sus. Juvenal. Sat. i. 85.] to King Charles I. See Walton's t ' could make.' In the first Ed. Life. ' could do.' SANDERSON, VOL. I. B namely, that qu...