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on
the Excellency of
the
Soul.
all
his
experience,
fee
his
teilimany of all,
in
Ecclef.
I.
2.
Vanity
of vanity,
pith
the
Preacher, vanity
of
vanities,
all
is
vanity.
Obferve thefe
five
things
in it ---
Firí
+,
The
things
of
this
world
are
not
onely vain,
but vanity
in the
abf
+rad
--
Second y, They are
an
exceilìve
vanity,
vanity of
va-
nities, -
--
Thirdly,
A
heap
of
vanity, vanity
of
vanities
,
-
-_
Fourthly,
All
is
vanity,
---
Fifthly,
Hee
adds
his
name
to
this, Saith
the
Preacher;
Now the
word
that
is
tranflated
here
Preacher,in
the
Hebrew,
as
thofe
that
know
the
tongue,
knotiv,
it
lignifies one
gathered
,
and
it
is
in
the
feminine
gender, and
fo fome
think
it
notes
the
foul
of
Solomon,
that
gathered
wifdome
after
hee
had
been gathering
vanity
fo
long
:
But
this
is
the
refult
of
it
,
that
all things
in
the
world
are
onely
vanity,
and
that
vanity of vanities,
heaps
of
vanity;orelfe
a
foul
gathered to
God, after
all
his
departure
from
him,Hee
faith
it
is
fo;
herein
Solomon
is
like
a
man that
bath
gotten to the top of
an
high
hill ,
fuch
a
hill
as
there
are
perhaps hundreds of people
of
a
thong
conceit, that
upon
the top of the
hill are very rich
treafures to bee
had
, and
they
are all fcrambling
up
the hill, and
treading
even
one
upon another that
they may
get
up
the
hill
;
Now
Solomon
had
got to
the
top
of
the
hill before
the
ref+,
and hee
feeing
men
keeping
af+ir-
to get
up
out
of
fuch
a
conceit,
cries
out
to
them,
Sirs
you are all
deceived,
you are
perfwaded
that
if
you
could get.ef+ates, and honours, and promotions,
that
then
you
fhould
have
a
great deal of content,
why,
I
am
got upon this
hill,
and
I
finde
there
is
nothing
but
dirt
here,
there
is
nothing here that will anfwer all your
tóyl,
and
trou-
ble,
and
e,peaation,
but
you
will
bee
utterly
deceived;
this
is
the meaning of
this Scripture,:
And then
next
unto
Solo-
,non,
one
of the
wife
-a
and
holief+
men
that
ever
lived
upon
the earth,
St.
Paul
in
the New
Tefiament;
mark,
as
foon
as
ever
God
did
but
work
upon
his
heart,
to
(hew unto
him
better
things, Phil.
3.,
8. Hee
profeffes
that
bee
did
account
all
tags
6w-lofsf$r the
excellency
of
the
knowledge
of
Chrifi
j
efire,
verf,
.
But
what
things
were
gain
to
mee,thofe
I
coanted
lo(s
for
Chri
ft,
yea da,tbtlefs,
and
I
accoum all things
but
lofs
for
the