Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
This may be considered as the one text of Solomon's whole discourse. He takes this for his subject; and all that follows is in confirmation of it. And Reader! I beseech you, as you pass along, to mark with me the opposite to this vanity, which is found in Christ. You will discover, in exact proportion, that as all Solomon advanceth in his subject, so the proof of the vanity of everything out of Christ, tends in confirmation of it, and the contrast will be of the durable riches and righteousness found in Christ.