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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…

Name: A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs…
Author: John Dod

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

John Dod 1549?–1645London: printed by Thomas for Thomas Man, 1606

[8], 120 p. · 45k words · STC 6954 · ESTC S109738

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A Learned and Fruitful Exposition upon the ninth Chapter of the Pr… › Verse 10: The beginning of Wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and Verse. 10 the knowledge of holy…A Learned and Fruitfull Exposition vpon the ninth Chapter of the Pr… › Verse 10: The beginning of Wisedome is the feare of the Lord, and Verse. 10 the knowledge of holi…

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Consolation against the reproaches, that are cast upon men §3when they set themselves to fear the Lord: now (saith the world) they begin to be fools, hitherto they have lived in good account, esteemed for sensible wise men, and henceforth they will be nothing set by: now (saith the Lord) they begin to be wise: hitherto they could have no approbation from God or good men, but now they take the way for good understanding.

Consolation against the reproches, that are cast vpon men §3when they set themselues to feare the Lord: now (saith the world) they begin to be fooles, hitherto they haue liued in good account, esteemed for sensible wise men, and henceforth they will bee nothing set by: now (saith the Lord) they beegin to be wise: hitherto they could haue no approbation from God or good men, but now they take the way for good vnderstanding.

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And the knowledge. Sound and sanctified knowledge is the Doct. 1 mother of all Christian devotion, where that faileth, there can ¹be no sincere piety: so saith God himself in the first Chapter, ver. 29. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord. Which Job reproves in the wicked worldlings of his time: they say to God, depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ²ways, who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit shall we have if we should pray to him? wherein they declare that they hate his presence, and reject the knowledge of his will, and cast off all care of his worship, and so there is an irreligious heart, an ignorant mind, and an impious behaviour.

And the knowledge. Sound and sanctified knowledge is the Doct. 1 mother of all Christian deuotion, where that faileth, there can

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The book

Title as printed

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

Author

John Dod 1549?–1645

Place

London

Printer

Thomas

Bookseller

Thomas Man

Year

1606

Size

[8], 120 p.

Words

45,499

Catalogue

STC 6954 · ESTC S109738

Text

EEBO-TCP A20544

Passages

548

Sections

Title page

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…

For thy days shall be multiplied by me, and the years of Verse. 11 thy life shall be augmented. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy sel•• ▪ and if thou Verse. 12 be a sinner, thou alone shalt suffer.

For thy dayes shall be multiplyed by me, and the yeares of Verse. 11 thy life shall be augmented. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy sel•• ▪ and if thou Verse. 12 be a sinner, thou alone shalt suffer.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

For thy days shall be multiplied by me, and the years of Verse. 11 thy life shall be augmented. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy sel•• ▪ and if thou Verse. 12 be a sinner, thou alone shalt suffer.

For thy dayes shall be multiplyed by me, and the yeares of Verse. 11 thy life shall be augmented. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy sel•• ▪ and if thou Verse. 12 be a sinner, thou alone shalt suffer.