334 Chap.3 e. An Expofition upon the Boolz of J 0 B. Veal. yet be is knowne by hiscompany ; any ofthefe trauflations may anfwer lobs purpofe. Yet I fhall cake the word more generally. Firft For any finfull way, or comic of hie. Sin and vanity ufualty expreffe one another ; And therefore to walke in fin is towalke in vanity. Secondly, To walke with vanity, is to purfue and fecke after any worldly thing, or the things which are pre fent. And fo the meaning is,IfI have =kitmy bufineffe to get theworld, this were a vanity ; Thebeft ofrneere worldly things arevanity, yea vanityofvanities, faith the 'Preacher, va,ity of vanities, all is vanity (Eccl. 2!) The vanity whereof .5 kwon the infpired preacher fpeaketh,is the contentment which world- lygood things promife, but cannot performeor make good. And fo they are vanity ofvanitiet, that is, the greateft vanity, fuperlative vanity, or more then vanity, ifany thingcan bemore vaine, then vanity it felfe is. Yea the preacher as ifhe had a mind to fay moreofworldly things but could not ,faith the fame a- gaine, and leafi helhould not have fayd ail, he faith once more, All is vanity. And though nothingof this world is vanity con- fidered (imply in it lei& (for the contraryaffertion carrieth a re- fledion upon the witdome ofhitel who created the world and all things in it )yet in three refpeds all worldly things are altoge- ther vanity ; Firft, as compared with thofe better things of the world to come, or with eternals. Secondty as confidered in their utter inability to advance man to the en;oyment of thofe things which are eternal]; or the bleffedneffe of the world to come. Thirdlu as ufed by fallen mat; whofe firft fin made the creature In tranitate.i.e, . in afiqua fig. fuojed ro vanity,and whole after fins,in the aâing and fulifilling tate,d2cinitur e. ofhis lofts, have made it tohim a vaine fub'Jett. And therefore rim vans illa as one ofthe Ancients gave very ferious warning, If men were qua faid"a'ern trimly wife, They wouldwrite this divine fentence upon the plots non bttbent ; fo lidItttr norm oftheir hands. ad upon their laments , upon the gates of their maxima oft per ktsfo,f, but offlectally span their hearts and confii,nces, Vanity of vt,itatem Vanities, All is vanity. Thirdly, towalke with vanity .is to deale Aqum falfly , And then vanity in the former part of the verfe and de- lac/s) 1nacid:Ceff ceit CUP: t in the latter arethe fame ; And hence, fourthly, forne tran- a, Si non fincere flare ; IfIhave walked withor in a lye. There is a lye in word, Verfat145 [um and there is a lye in pradice. This reading agrees with the &- cumhorninibus fcription of the perfon that 0141afcend the holyhill of God &annals, aso (40/1.24.
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