Chapter 1 - The vanity of all temporal things. Chapter 2 - The vanity of pleasures, riches, and worldly labours. Chapter 3 - All human things are liable to perpetual changes. We are to rest on God's providence, and cast away fruitless cares. Chapter 4 - Other instances of human miseries. Chapter 5 - Caution in words. Vows are to be paid. Riches are often pernicious: the moderate use of them is the gift of God. Chapter 6 - The misery of the covetous man. Chapter 7 - Prescriptions against worldly vanities: mortification, patience, and seeking wisdom. Chapter 8 - True wisdom is to observe God's commandments. The ways of God are unsearchable. Chapter 9 - Man knows not certainty that he is in God's grace. After death no more work or merit. Chapter 10 - Observations on wisdom and folly, ambition and detraction. Chapter 11 - Exhortation to works of mercy, while we have time, to diligence in good, and to the remembrance of death and judgment. Chapter 12 - The Creator is to be remembered in the days of our youth: all worldly things are vain: we should fear God and keep his commandments.