Ecclesiastes 6

He robs himself of necessaries. A man to whom God has given riches, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof (Ecclesiastes 6:2). He gluts his chest and starves his belly.

Ecclesiastes 6:6. Do not all go to one place? I remember an ingenious writer, who had been very copious in his publications, observed, that the best and most profitable were written after he was fifty years of age: it is supposed, then the judgment is ripened, and the genius is…

Secondly, a hidden birth. An untimely birth, is called a hidden birth, because it is hid from the eyes of others; abortives are unpleasing and undesirable spectacles, therefore they are covered and laid by; there is no remembrance of their form or likeness, therefore Solomon spe…

Is this profitable? No, 'tis a sore travail, for he has not power to eat thereof (Ecclesiastes 6:2). To fill his purse he starves his belly, and grudges himself victuals.

1. As they are men; such are those misers, which having great estates, yet can hardly afford themselves bread; who live sneakingly, and are ready to wish their own throats cut, because they are forced to spend something in satisfying nature's demands: This Solomon calls an evil…

Fifthly from the certainty of an everlasting separation from them (verses 15-16), and this he says is a sore evil, which galls the heart of a worldly man, that has resolved upon no other heaven than his wealth, when sickness comes to snatch him away from this his idol, there is…