Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That all worldly tbinQs arebut were vanities. 2" rightly to value them,but alto more experience of them then any other,feeing he abounded more in all worldly profperi- tie, then any man that euer liued vpon the earth. For as in himfelfe he excelled all mortal! men that euer breathed, in .King. ;.r I. wifedome and vnderftanding,the which heepurpofely 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 [late he farre out- fiript all others in profperitie and abundance. For if you re- fpeel his honour, the holy Ghofi faith,that there was neuer any among the Kings like vnto him; for hee was a nightie .King. ;,t;; Prince,yea a great Monarch,who reigned otter all king-domes, from the rimer veto the land of the Philiflines,and veto the bor.. der of i Egypt ; and he ruled inall the region en the other fide '4'1.X-4%4.1104 the rimer from Tiphfah ente veto Ázzah ; otter all theKings on the ot herfide the rimer, and they brought him prefects and firmed him all the daies of his life .Yea and not only theybut all the Kings of the earth fought the prefence of Salomon, to Beare his wifedome that God had put in his heart, and they brought emery man his prefect, vefels of Auer, and ve is of aChre.9.a ;,s gold,end raiment, armour, and fweete odours, horfes and mules from yeere to yeere. Ifye looketo hisriches,ke had all things in abundance, and excelled herein alto all the Kings of the earth,as the holy Ghoft fpeaketh.He had fix hundred,three- s.Chto.9.aa: fcorc,and fix talents of gold yeerely;befidesthat which was brought in by hisTolegatherers and Merchants, and the prefents which the Kings of Arabia brought vnto him : hee had a (lately Throne of Iuorie with fix.ftcps, and twelue li.. a.Chro,9.13. ons at the ends of them couered with gold; hee made two hundred Targets of beaten gold,frx hundred fhekels going to a Target ;and three hundred fhields of beaten gold,three hundred Ihekels going to a fhield; his drinking vcffels, yea Ve:f:so. all the veffels of his houle of the wood ofLebanon,wcre of pure gold; as for filucrin his daies it was nothing el1eemed, Verr.27, but was as common as {tones in the ftrecte. For his proui- fion he had for one day thirtienicafures of fine flower, and three fcoremeafures ofineale, 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