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A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs…
A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by Thomas for Thomas Man, 1606
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.
Secondly, sound understanding doth discover the defect of §2understanding: what great need they have, what little store they have, and the door of Gods storehouse and treasure opened to them for their full supply.
Secondly, sound vnderstanding doth discouer the defect of §2vnderstanding: what great neede they haue, what little store they haue, and the dore of Gods storehouse and treasure opened to them for their full supplie.
Thirdly, they know the wants of these heavenly Jewels, that §3their price is inestimable, and therefore they grow insatiable in their desires, and though they get much, yet still they labour for more, and be as greedy and having, as though they had nothing at all.
Thirdly, they know the wants of these heauenly Iuels, that §3their price is inestimable, and therefore they grow insatiable in their desires, and though they get much, yet still they labour for more, and bee as greedie and hauing, as though they had nothing at all.
Fourthly, the former tasting & feeding on this celestial food §4hath brought them to a perpetual longing after it: the more they receive, the more hungry they are: the exercise of eating hath so sharpened their appetite, as they desire continually to eat.