Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XII.
In youth is fittest time, and most meritorious to serue God. In age the same is
more and more necessarie, but harder then to beginne, and lesse gratful.
8. In this booke the preacher hath shewed, that al worldlie this gesare
vanitie, 13. and that true felicitie is only procured by wisdom, which
consteth in the feare of God; and obseruation of his commandments.
1 Remember thy Creator in the dayes note of thy youth,
before the time of affliction come, & the yeares approch,
of which thou maist say: They please me not,
2 before the
sunne, and light, and moone, and starres be darke, and the
cloudes returne after the raine:
3 when the kepers of the
house shal be moued, and the strongest men shal stagger, and
the grinders shal be idle in a smal number: and they shal waxe
darke that looke through the holes:
4 and they shal shut the
doores in the streate, at the basenes of the grinders voice, and
they shal rise vp at the voice of the birde, and al the daughters
of song shal be deafe.
5 The high thinges also shal feare, and
they shal be afrayd in the way, the almondtree shal florish,
the locust shal be fatted, and the capertree shal be destroyed:
because man shal goe into the house of his eternitie, and the
mourners shal goe round about in the streate.
6 Before the
siluer coard be broken, and the golden headband recurre,
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and the water pot be broken vpon the fountaine, and the
wheele be broken vpon the cesterne,
7 and the dust returne
into his earth, from whence it was, and the spirite returne to
God, who gaue it.
8 Vanitie of vanities, sayd note Ecclesiastes,
and al thinges vanitie.
9 And wheras Ecclesiastes was most
wise, he taught the people, and declared the thinges that
he had done: and searching forth made manie parables.
10 He sought profitable wordes, and wrote wordes most
right, and ful of truth.
11 The wordes of wisemen are as
prickes, and as nailes deepely stricken in, which by the
counsel of maisters are geuen of one pastour.
12 More then
these my sonne require not. Of making manie bookes there
is no end: and often meditation is affliction of the flesh.
13 noteLet vs al heare together the end of speaking. Feare God,
and obserue his commandments: for this is euerie man:
14 and al thinges that are done, God wil bring into iudgement
for euerie note errour, whether it be good, or euil.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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