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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.
No man can be truly wise before he be unfeignedly religious, Doct. 1 Solomon had experience both of heavenly wisdom and 1humane wisdom, of the show of the one, and soundness of the other, and thus doth he declare his judgement: Let us 2fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole man, nothing but this can make a man to be a man, without ⟨p. 23⟩which he is in worse state then a beast: his glory and excellency consisteth in it, and all his profit and comfort proceedeth from it.
No man can be truely wise before he be vnfainedly religious, Doct. 1 Salomon had experience both of heauenly wisedome and 1humane wisedome, of the shew of the one, and soundnesse of the other, and thus doth hee declare his iudgement: Let vs 2feare God and keepe his commaundements, for this is the whole man, nothing but this can make a man to be a man, without ⟨p. 23⟩which he is in worse state then a beast: his glory and excellencie consisteth in it, and all his profit and comfort proceedeth from it.
- 1Religious men only are wise.Religious men onely are wise.
- 2Eccle. 12. 13.
First, God himself doth usually in his word call all unregenerate Reasons. 1 men fools, especially every where in this book, &