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A11933	A godlie and learned commentarie vpon the excellent book of Solomon, commonly called Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher in the vvhich commentarie are briefly and plainly layde downe the methode, sense, and vse of that most profitable sermon, on the which, yet there hath neuer bin set forth any exposition in the English tong before this time, in such large and profitable manner. VVritten in Latin by Iohn Serranus, and newly turned into English by Iohn Stockwood, school-master of Tunbridge.; Commentarius, in Solomonis Ecclesiastes. English	Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598.; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1585 (1585)	STC 22247; ESTC S117199	256,809	478

wonderfull that the estate and condition of man and of a brute beast shoulde bee in a manner a like by reason of the like issue and falling out of things vnto them both 19 Because that which happeneth .. that is to saye the same affections in the common powers that maintaine life for hee speaketh only of these doe befall vnto men as namely sickenesse alterations of bodie weakenesses decaying and vading away of strength whereupon death is common vnto them both and in the verie dissolution and ouerthrowe of the powers and strength the Spirite is all one namely the vitall spirite accordingly as wee haue expounded before 20 And they consist of principles and beginnings Man and beasts are made all of one matter which are all of one matter that is to saye dust and are resolued and doe returne againe vnto the same dust as vnto their principles and beginnings All these thinges are such as that they may bee perceiued and marked of all men For hee entreateth onely of corporall and sensible powers and effectes In like effectes so farre as they are apparant vnto the external or outwarde viewe and apprehension of our eye and senses who can make a difference betweene the life of man and the life of a brute beast 21 VVho knoweth That is to saye If anye bodie woulde consider according vnto the iudgement of man onely and examine by the ballance of man his reason the outwarde shewe and condition of man and beast the which euery man seeth to bee common vnto them both howe shall hee knowe to make a difference betweene both their spirites and perceiue some certaine more notable and precious thing to bee in man than in beast so that the minde of man shoulde ascende vp into heauen immortall and the spirite of brute beastes goe downe into the earth that is to saye dye with the bodie as namely grosse and mortall with his grosse and mortall bodye beeing resolued into his principle that is to saye the earth For hee had assigned that for the matter of beastes and so the bodye when it dyeth is sayde To goe downe into the earth The outwarde condition therefore beeing onely considered the which is common vnto man with brute beastes and taking the reason of man onely into counsaile no man can tell whither the soule of man become heauenly and immortall and remoue vp into Heauen his olde countrie and dye not with the bodye and when as there is one issue and ende common vnto man and beast in what respecte and in what thinges the difference doeth consist that the soule of man shoulde haue an heauenly and an immortall estate and the spirite of a brute beaste an earthlye and mortall The reason of man doeth not teache this What man his reason teacheth the which of sensible thinges can onely iudge sensibly that is to say of such things as are subiect vnto the senses so as their nature doeth beare but rather it teacheth this that setting aside the care of vertue the which no rewarde doeth followe men shoulde busily laboure in tricking and trimming vp of their bodye For this is the conclusion of that doctrine which holdeth the soule to bee mortall contrarywise the conclusion of that doctrine which teacheth that the soule is immortall is this that abandoning the care of decking vp the bodye wee shoulde frame oure liues according vnto vertue and wisedome The wiseman therefore disputeth of the condition of our soule according vnto the outwarde appearance of thinges and according vnto the iudgement of man his reason the which cannot fynde happinesse in vertue it selfe so farre as may bee iudged of it by the effectes of life For who iudging by the compasse of the reason of man will iudge vertue to bee happie in the middest of tormentes and in death it selfe The Philosophers therefore doe dote and doe deceiue them selues and others who accordinge vnto the reason of man woulde conclude that vertue of her selfe is sufficient vnto a blessed and happye life For on the racke and in the verye iawes of death the trueth of thinges will crye out againste it and plead them giltie of lying The light of God his spirite must instruct vs in true vertue A newe light is to be sought for so that we may both vnderstand true vertue and also that happinesse the which no doubt remaineth for vertue The forgeries therefore of Stoike Philosophers concerning vertue do no lesse vanish awaye at the brightnesse of this light then the dreames of the Epicures concerning pleasure 22 Therefore I sawe These are not the wordes of prophane men by way of imitation as some interpreters doe suppose but he now repeateth as it were a common saying the former wordes in the which hee did set out the true vse of things to shewe wherein the true contentednesse of minde doeth consist That wee are not to fasten and settle our mindes vpō these things and in them to limit and bounde our hope in the which doubtlesse we shall find nothing lesse but meere vanitie Therefore that it is better with a quiet minde to vse and enioy things present laying aside the care of these things the which cannot choose but greatly torment our mindes reiecting that trouble which commeth of the consideration of them and neglecting the studie of things to come Of the true foundation of happinesse hee will deale throughly in his place It was sufficient for him in this place to set down a troublelesse remedie against this present sicknesse whereby this immoderate care might be buried vntill that the minde should soundly be strengthened with the food of true happines We haue spoken before of the interpretatiō of these words that we go not about a needelesse labour in repeating of those thinges the whiche wee haue there declared at large And concerning the immortalitie of the soule hee will set downe a plaine doctrine hereafter chapt 12. ver 9. the which is soundly to be opposed and matched against these doubtings The Doctrine 1. We ought not to dissēble our doutes in religion when we may be resolued to our better instruction We néede not straine any courtisie to acknowledge openly those doubtings wherewith oure minds are held in suspence yet a reuerent wise discretion is to be vsed least that through heate of contention we be ouerthwartly drawne into diuerse errours Therefore we must so doubt that yet in the end our mindes maye be strengthened with sound knowledge 2. The doctrine of the immortalitie of the soule is most certain The doctrine of the immortalitie of the soule is most certain and is the foundation of our hope For what should we hope for in the other life if our soules did die with our bodies but yet fleshe and blood cannot teach vs this doctrine that is to say the exquisit discourses of Philosophers albeit neuer so excellent the which doe rather intangle and make more darke the manifest trueth I make no exceptiō of Plato himself Plato

flower of Haruest And the locust shal be a burden vnto him The locust By the worde Locust they vnderstand the priuie members the which in old men are stretched out The which exposition seemeth to be the more simple and playne because it followeth And lust shall bee driuen away the which wordes doe plainelye shewe that in old men the power of desiring not only of meate and drinke but cheefely of lust doeth abate and waxe cold when as the vitall and naturall desires doe faile but the priuation and bereauing of those powers the whiche hee rehearsed before is an assured token of death drawing neare Because man goeth vnto c. that is to saye by this meanes a waye is made vnto death For hee calleth death The house of man his age as the euerlasting seate or dwelling place in the which euerye man must dwell vntill the daye of the resurrection or rising agayne And the mourners M●urners He signifieth the graue And setteth out the maner of burial yea and also death it selfe For the deade were wont to be lamented women being hired for this seruice the which of the Latines were called Praeficae And that this custome was muche vsed among the men of the east The siluer coard it doth appear by many places 6. The siluer coard c. Some doe expounde the siluer coarde to be the ridgebone of the back the which is tied together as it were with certaine linkes He calleth it Siluer because of the white colour as appeareth in a deade bodye And the Coard in my iudgement is sayde to be stretched out because that in death the ioyntes are made more loose and especiallye in olde men whose reines are crooked Others vnderstande the sinowes grislie muscles ioints cordes because that the sinowes are like vnto white stringes and in as much as they are the instrumentes of the sences and of moouing they haue especiall force and power in the body of man The golden ewer or pot The golden ewer or golden pot by whiche kinde of speaking they saye the brayne to be signifyed or else that skin in the braine the whiche is called Pia Mater Plato placeth the tower and fortresse of life in the braine Some take it to be meant of the heart because the heart is the fountaine and spring of the vitall powers and of the cheefe heate and the similitude of gold seemeth rather to agree vnto it together with the spirites The Pitcher be broken By the worde Pitcher they suppose the hollow veine to bee signified The Pitcher namelye the receiuer of the bloud which the vitall powers do drawe from the liuer that from thence as it were by pipes it maye bee conueighed by the vaines into the whole bodye the which distribution and conueighing of the blood into all the parts of the body Plato calleth hydreian and diocheteusin By the word Fountaine they saye the liuer is noted Fountaine the which is the principall and natural vessell to conteine the blood And by this kinde of speaking he meaneth that the blood fayleth and so consequently that death followeth Virgil One and the selfe same way the blood and the life doe follow The wheele The wheele be broken vpon the Cisterne They say that by the wheele the Heade is signified because of the power attractiue and that by the Cisterne is meante the hearte from the whiche the natural powers are drawn after the like maner as a bucket full of water is drawne out of the well by a wheele The Cesterne The originall and first heate being quenched when as the sences and all the instrumentes of the sences weare and consume away death followeth The which in expresse wordes bee by and by sheweth And dust returne c. there bee a separating of the soule and the bodye the which is a true definition of death when as namely the two natures of that essence whereof man consisteth and hath his name A true definition of death shall returne vnto their principles the earthy vnto the earth and the diuine and heauenlye vnto God and therefore the body bee broughte againe vnto the earth and the soule go vnto heauen and be ioyned with GOD after whose Image it was made It is therefore a most notable place Concerning the immortalitie of the soule To wit that there is in man one part earthlye and mortal an other part diuine and immortal the one that is to say the body goeth to the earth the other that is to say the soule vnto GOD. This auntient or simple truth is to be opposed or set against the deuises of prophane men the whiche haue gone aboute to darken this truth with the tedious discourses of subtil and deep disputations the sparkes whereof notwithstanding haue remayned in the mindes of some of the heathen euen in spite of the teeth of the Deuill Arist●tle Aristotle in this matter being wonderfull obscure and darke doth entangle the mindes of the vnwarie and vnskilfull with daungerous suspicions Plato In Plato there are greater remnantes of this truth albeit hee speake not so rightly as hee ought to doe concerning this mysterie or secret Euery where notwithstanding hee holdeth that this doctrine of the immortalitie of the soule is the foundation of true Philosophie and gathering the summe and effecte of this long disputation hee declareth his iudgement concerning this matter in expresse and plaine wordes saying The soule therefore is immortall and free from all destruction And when as death commeth vnto man that indeed whiche is mortall as reason is it should dieth but that which is immortall goeth away sound and voyde of all corruption giuing place vnto death Phocylides truly out of that auncient philosophie Phocylides teacheth the immortality of the soule in euident and cleare wordes The which place also it shall not greeue me to set downe that it may appeare that they which either denie the immortalitie of the soule or else call it into doubt are conuinced and reproued of follye and madnesse euen through the force and power of the light of nature that I recite not the excellent testimonies of Cicero touching this matter The bodies dead the soules of men The golden verses of Phocylides concerning the immortalitie of the soule doe vncorrupt remaine For bodies from the earth we haue and into it resolude againe VVe are but dust to Heauens hie VVhen body dieth the soule doth flie And these wordes of Solomon are expresly to be noted to the ende we maye knowe howe wickedly and lewdly they deale the which take occasion out of this booke eyther to establish vngodly doctrines or else doe reiecte and refuse the same as not sound The place therefore the which is in the third chapter verse 21 is to be vnderstoode by comparing it with this In the ende therefore of this sermon he enterlaced the mention of olde age and of death to the ende that we should vnderstand that this is euen an