A Comment Upon Coheleth, Title page 1 – Dedication
A COMMENT VPONUPON COHELETH OR ECCLESIASTES: Framed for the inſtruction of PRINCE HENRI Our hope.
BY HVG BROVGHTON. Anno 1605
A COMMENT VPONUPON COHELETH OR ECCLESIASTES: Framed for the inſtruction of PRINCE HENRI Our Hope.
By HVGH BROVGHTON.
Anno 1605.
TO THE MOST NOBLE, HENRY PRINCE OF great Britanie.
IN a former litle booke, (moſt noble Prince) ſpeaking Ebrew and Latin, I ſhewed the Perſons of Davids Familie: the Kinges race, and the Kinglier then the Kings, the houſe of our Lord after the flesh: a matter opened in few wordes: yet miſtaken in England and almoſt every where, to the ruine of infinite millions: who finding Chriſtians vnable to ſettle their owne narration, reiected all Chriſtianitie. That ſmall worke I diſperſed in many thouſand copies by Sea and Lande over Europe and Aſia: where many hauehave thought the gift not meane. Next, knowledge of the Perſones that ſprang from Davids houſe: the qualitie of the Kingdome & perpetual Throne promiſed to David, 2. Sam. 7. and 1. Chron. 17. and Pſal. 89. should be knowen. To manifeſt that Salomon Davids ſonne, and a King that hath all Royalties of this world, is choſen of God. He telleth vponupon his owne longue ſtudie and experience, that all thinges vnderunder the Sunne be vaine: So that the Throne promiſed to David, muſt be for the world to come: which the man Gabriel that appeared to Daniel to tell our Lords death: and to Marie for his birth, doeth plainly expound what nature it hath: that it is the Kingdome of Chriſt by ſuffrings bringing ioye. The whole booke of Salomon herein ſpent, with helpes to clearnes, I ioyne to the former: which, if God will, shalbe accompanied with others, as the argument calleth for explication.
Your graces most humble Hugh Broughton.