Thatall worldly tbinQsarebut werevanities. 2" rightly tovalue them,but alto more experienceofthem then any other,feeing he aboundedmore inall worldly profperi- tie, then any man that euer liued vpon the earth. Foras in himfelfe he excelledall mortal! men that euer breathed, in .King.;.r I. wifedome and vnderftanding,the whichheepurpofely im.. and 4.19.30. ployed, to improue all thefe worldly things to their vttcr- Ecclef,x.t.;. mo(1 value,as himfelfe profeffeth; fo in his [latehe farreout- fiript all others in profperitie and abundance. Forifyou re- fpeel his honour, the holyGhofi faith,that there was neuer any among the Kings like vnto him; for heewas a nightie .King.;,t;; Prince,yea agreat Monarch,who reignedotter all king-domes, from the rimervetothelandofthe Philiflines,and veto the bor.. der ofi Egypt ; andhe ruledinall theregion en the otherfide '4'1.X-4%4.1104 the rimer fromTiphfahente veto Ázzah ; otter all theKings on theotherfide the rimer, and they brought him prefects and firmed him all the daiesof his life .Yea andnot only theybut all the Kings of the earth fought the prefence ofSalomon, to Beare his wifedome that God hadput in his heart, and they brought emery man his prefect, vefels ofAuer, and ve is of aChre.9.a;,s gold,endraiment, armour, andfweeteodours, horfes and mules fromyeere toyeere. Ifye looketo hisriches,kehadall things in abundance, and excelled herein alto allthe Kings ofthe earth,as the holyGhoft fpeaketh.He had fix hundred,three- s.Chto.9.aa: fcorc,and fix talentsofgold yeerely;befidesthat whichwas brought inby hisTolegatherers and Merchants, and the prefents which the KingsofArabiabrought vnto him : hee hada (lately Throne of Iuoriewith fix.ftcps, and twelue li.. a.Chro,9.13. ons at the ends ofthem couered withgold; hee made two hundredTargetsofbeaten gold,frx hundred fhekels going to a Target ;and threehundred fhields ofbeatengold,three hundred Ihekels going to a fhield; hisdrinking vcffels, yea Ve:f:so. all the veffels ofhis houleofthe wood ofLebanon,wcre of puregold; as for filucrin his daies it wasnothingel1eemed, Verr.27, but was as common as {tones in the ftrecte. For his proui- fion hehad for one day thirtienicafures offine flower, and three fcoremeafuresofineale, which according to the leafs account is z5 a quarters, and according to the eftimate of others much Inure; thirtie oxen;an hundred fheepe,befide IXing.4,a4,a6 T Harts
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