Featly et. Al. - BV4275 T47 1672

T H E P R A I S E MOtIRNING, O R MOURNING Preferred before MIRTH. SERMON II. Ecclef. 7. Z. It is better to go to the Houle ofMourning, than to the Haug of ,Feafling forthat isthe endofallmen, and thelivingwiĆ³l layit tohisheart. N the former Chapter, the Wife Man had been Ihewing the vanity, and infufficiency of all earthly things to make a man happy, and howmuch the World is mifaken, in Peeking happinefs in any thing here below. In this Chapter, and thofe that follow, he cometh to dire&men in the right way to find it, and fheweth themwhere they (hould leek it, and where they fhould find it : Firfl: he telleth them of a good name, in the firfh verfe. Agood name is better than pre- time oyntment. The fecond meansis, agooddeath; the day ofdeath is better than the dayofones birth. The third is a right mourning it is bet- ter to go to the bottle of mourning, than to the houfe offeafiing. Afterward he proceedeth to other particulars. But this he bringeth in upon the former , to prevent an obje&ion that fome might make : for having Paid that the dayof death, is better than the day ofones birth fome might obje& : What goodnefs can there D be The Cohe- rence.

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