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A12366	The preachers proclamacion Discoursing the vanity of all earthly things, and proouing that there is no contentation to a Christian minde, but onely in the feare of God. Henry Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22684; ESTC S113467	13,605	43

to this that he did see all things vaine vpon which men set their hartes he was mooued with compassion and could be silent no longer but needes he must write to them which seeke felicitie as he did in transitorye thinges to warne them that they seeke not any longer in these foolish things which haue no stabilitie nor contentation but flye from them to the fear of God which hath the promises of this life and the life to come Therfore he begins with all is vanitie as if he should say loue not the worlde nor the the things of the worlde for I haue tryed that there is no certaintye nor contentation in them Thus he drawes them first frō the wrong way and then sets them in the right way to happynes which he desineth at last to be feare God keep his cōmaundements When he had gone through a thousand vanityes then that comes in at the end euen like our repentaunce which staies till death So his driste is to showe that mans happynes is not in these thinges which we counte of but in those thinges which we deferre His reason is they are all vanitye his proof is because there is no stabilitye in thē nor contentation of minde his coclusion is therfore contemne the worlde and looke vp to heauen from whence ye came and whether ye goe This is the scope which Salomon aymes at as though we did seeke happynes but we goe a wrong way vnto it therfore he sounds a retyre showing that if we goe on as we haue begun we shall not find happynes but miserye because we goe by vanityes therfore to fright vs out of this way he breaks forth into an exclamation Vanitie of vanities c. Now Salomon full of wisdome schooled with experience is licenced to giue his sentence of the whole world For the spirituall man iudgeth all things his iudgment is so certain that it runnes before the euidence and condemns all for vanitye before he conuince them to be vaine Neuer any Iudge did condemne so many togither Salomon resolued all the doubts of the Queen of Shaeba yet Salomon neuer answered so many questions at once as now for what can ye inquire but here you haue an answere aske him as the soldiars or harlots or Publicanes asked Iohn Maister what is sinne vanitye saith Salomon what is plesure vanitye too what is beauty vanity too what is riches vanitye too what is honour vanitye too what is longe life vanitye too This is the state of things after the fall all turned to vanitye This is no reproch to the things but a shame to him which so abused them that all thinges should be called vaine for him What a testimony is this of him which should be the onely seruant of God vpon earth whome he created in holynes and righteousnes whom he framed to his owne image whom he placed in Paradice would haue raysed to heauen to heare that he hath so poluted him selfe with euerye sinne that now he is nothing but vanitye this is a lamentable song that will make him weep that tunes it if he think what he saith how his state is changed since Adam his Father dyed Once God saide that all was good now he saith that all is naught and vaine as though he forbad man that which he created for man that is not Salomons meaning to debarre mē from the vse of creatures although all things changed with man became worsse then they were yet he doth rather showe that man reapes nothing but vanity out of these things by reason of his corruption then that the things them selues are vaine if they were well vsed for euen since the creation Paule saith 1. Tim. 4. that euery creature of God is good and nothing is to be reiected if it be receiued or vsed with thankesgiuing for it is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer that is it which makes them profitable to vs which because it is wanting for the most parte therefore Salomon saith that all things are vaine to vs not of thē selues but because they are not sanctified as they should be therfore in the 2.24 the 3. 12 22. the 5.17 the 8.15 he showes a way how we may make profite of all and reioyce in our labors and finde a lawfull pleasure in earthly thinges so often as he calles to the vse least we should erre is the monkes and Eremites haue done before mistaking these wordes when he saith that all is vanitie they haue forsaken al company and gouernment and office and trade and get them selues into the wildernes among beastes to liue in quiet and silence saying that men could not liue in the worlde and please God because all is vanitie so while they counted all things vaine they became vaine themselues and left those blessinges which Salomon enioyed after this knowledge more then he did before Therfore it is vain man which Solomon reproueth which is not only called vanitye but lighter then vanity if he did not vse things vainely nothing should be vaine in the world whereas now by abuse we maye see sometime as greate vanitye in the best thinges as in the worst for are not many vaine in their knowledge vaine in their polices vain in their learning as other are vaine in their ignorance Was not the wisdome of Achitophell a vaine thing the swiftnes of Hasael a vain thing the strength of Goliah a vaine thing the treasure of Nebuchadnezer a vain thing the honor of Hammon a vaine thing the beautie of Absolon a vain thing the knowledge of the Scribes a vaine thing the deuotiō of the Pharises a vaine thing By this you may see that vanitie is bolde when she breakes into howses and Churches and palaces Now we may say none will redresse vanitie maye come to infect where truth may not come to reproue is it not time then to sound this alarum againe Vanitie of vanities vanitie of vanities all is vanitie If we could hear how vehemently and how pittifullye Salomon pronounced this outcry happily it would moue vs a little to heare how he did exclame of his owne life condemned him selfe as it were by the sound of a Trūpet that al might heare for we are all by nature such deafe adders that whether the Prophets come pyping or mourning or crying they goe away from vs againe like Jeremie crying we would haue cured Babel but she could not be cured Therfore Salomon speakes thrise like a cryer Vanitie of vanities c. as the mother which would faine make her sonne to heare she doubles trebles her wordes and what my sonne and what my sonne of my wombe and what O sonne of my desires so when God would stirre vp men to heauen he cryeth thrise to the earth earth earth heare the worde of the Lord so when Salomon would disswade from the cōpany of the wicked read Pro. 4.14 how often he repeates the charge Enter not into the way