. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. f the grey-headed man, scarcely able to support his ownshrunken body ; and in the same way that the golden bowl, and thesilver cord, and the broken wheel, and the shattered cistern are figuresfor different parts of the body, such as the head or the heart,whereon the issues of life mainly depend, each become useless, andready to be dissolved. And others think that the failing body is de-scribed as a city when a storm has come on it, when the keepers ofthe houses leave the doors and go inside, and the
. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. f the grey-headed man, scarcely able to support his ownshrunken body ; and in the same way that the golden bowl, and thesilver cord, and the broken wheel, and the shattered cistern are figuresfor different parts of the body, such as the head or the heart,whereon the issues of life mainly depend, each become useless, andready to be dissolved. And others think that the failing body is de-scribed as a city when a storm has come on it, when the keepers ofthe houses leave the doors and go inside, and the women that look outof the windows are frightened away, and the singers and the feastersforget their pleasures, and everything out of doors is neglected andleft to ruin. It makes little difference which of these explanations isthe better one; either enables us to enter into Solomons generalmeaning, which is indicated by the first two verses of the chapter, ifwe connect them with verse seven, Then shall the dust returnto the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God whogave it.*22a. OUTLINES ON VARIOUS PASSAGES All the books, both of the New Testament and the Old, may besaid to have been written in faith and by faith. But we might usedifferent words to describe the faith of the different saints andprophets who wrote them, or whose deeds are told there; if we shouldsay that Moses had a self-sacrificing faith, Isaiah an expectant faith,Jeremiah a sustaining faith, Daniel a consoling faith, we mightexpress some special truth as to the writings and spirit of each, as wellas the true faith in God which is common to all. And if we thusdistinguish the kinds of faith wherein the books of Scripture arewritten, we might say that this book of the preacher was written witha daringly honest faith, a faith that would look facts in the face,and see God in or behind those very things which serve to hideHim from most others. The natural facts that Solomon speaks of inthese two chapters
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