Ecclesiasticus — Chapter 39
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Verse 1
Besides actiue life commended in the former chap. it is necessarie that vertuous men vse also meditation & contemplation.
Verse 8
True knowledge of holie Mysteries: without which meditation wil be erronious.
Verse 18
Puritie of soule free from grieuous sinnes, and endowed with vertues.
Verse 20
Humilitie is especially required in contemplatiue persons.
Verse 27
Hope of eternal reward comforteth, & encourageth the seruants of God.
Verse 31
In the meane time God giueth necessaries for this life. Which the good vse rightly to their merite, & the wicked vse euil to their damnation.
Verse 33
Diuels were created in state of grace, & of their owne wil fel from God, & consequently were punished.
Verse 35
ferpeats, and {word re- uenging the impious vnto deftruGtion, 37. In his commandments they {hal make merrie , aud onthe earth they thal be prepared when neede is, and in theirtimes they ihal not pretermir a word, 38. Theretore rromrhe beginning I was confirmed, and I haue confulted, and thoughts, and leaft wricten, 39. Al the workes of our Lord are good , & he wil giuc euerie worke in his houre, 40, It is not to be faid : This in worfe then that: for ; al {hal be approued in theirtime, 41. And now with al hart and mouth praife ye, and bleffe the name of our Lord, CHoar, XL The firft master of fpiritual meditation may be mans miferie,contnafted by original finne, 4.008 increafed by aétual,17.reliened by Gods grace: 22. which geneth manit-benefits,27 .man adding ky voluntarie cooperation. Rear trauail is created to. al men, and an heanie yoke vpon the children of Adam, from (4) zhe day. of their comming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of theit burying, into the mother of al,2. Their cogitations,and teares of the hart,ima- gination of things to.come , and the day of their ending: 3, from him thar firteth vpon the glorious feate , vnto him thatis humbled in earth & ashes,