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A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts
A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reform them. Framed and preached by M. Will. Perkins.A treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts: His want of good thoughts: The way to reforme them. Framed and preached by M. Wil. Perkins.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1607Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1607
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The fourth is the thought of Theft, which is the thought with consent of beguiling or ⟨p. 112⟩wronging another in his goods or substance. This is that Imagining of iniquity, and working of wickedness upon their beds, in coveting of fields—against which cMicah pronounceth a woe. And this thought also possesseth their hearts, that with the wicked Israelites wish the time were come, wherein theyd might make the Epha small and the Shekel great, that is, lessen the measure, and enhance the price, and falsify the weights by deceit.
The fourth is the thought of Theft, which is the thought with consent of beguyling or ⟨p. 112⟩wronging another in his goods or substāce. This is that Imagining of iniquitie, and working of wickednes vpon their beds, in coueting of fields—against which cMicah pronounceth a woe. And this thought also possesseth their hearts, that with the wicked Israelites wish the time were come, wherein theyd might make the Epha small and the Shekell great, that is, lessen the measure, and inhance the pryce, and falsifie the weights by deceit.