Excerpt from Lectures, Expository and Practical, on the Book of Ecclesiastes It is of essential importance to the interest and prosperity of the cause of God in any age, that the precious religious writings of eminent saints which are peculiarly fitted to instruct and edify the people of God, should be made easily accessible. And there are no religious works, perhaps, next to the Holy Scriptures, which are more fitted to be useful in a high degree, than such Expository and Practical treatises on the Books of Scripture as, from their excellence, have established for themselves the character of standard works, in the common estimation of evangelical Christians. Such considerations as these have led the Publisher to project the republication of a Series of such standard Expositions of special Books of Scripture as are of acknowledged excellence, but which have now become scarce and difficult to obtain. The established reputation of Dr. Ralph Wardlaw of Glasgow, Scotland, as a solid, able, and evangelical Expositor of some of the most difficult and yet most instructive of the Books of the Bible, and the rare excellence of his work on Ecclesiastes in particular, have combined to induce the Publisher to commence his enterprise with this work. He has much pleasure in now presenting this beautiful and very carefully corrected new edition of it, to the patronage of the religious world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.