John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 3:8

Verſ. 8. A time to love, and a time to hate] Yet I like not his counſel that ſaid. Ama tanquam oſurus, odi tanquam amaturus. Let a man chuſe whom he may love, and then love whom he hath choſen. Let love be without diſſimulation: abhor the evil, cleave to the good, Rom. 12.9. Hate wee may (but then it muſt be) Non virum, ſed vitium, not the man, but his evil qualities; whereof alſo we muſt ſeek to bereave him, that he may bee totus deſiderabilis, altogether lovely, Cant. 5.16.

A time of war, and a time of peace] Time (ſaith an Interpreter) is a circle; and the Preacher ſhutteth up this paſſage of time in a circle. For having begun with a time to be born, and a time to dye, he endeth with a time of warre, which is a time of dying, and with a time of peace, which is a time, wherein people, by bringing forth, are multiplied.