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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.
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.
After the description of wisdom, whereby it may be rightly discerned is here proposed the profit and reward of it, whereby we are persuaded to embrace it: and that is.
After the discription of wisedome, whereby it may be rightly discerned is heere proposed the profit and reward of it, whereby we are perswaded to imbrace it: and that is.
First, in a particular, namely, long life: which is not so to be understood as though it were perpetual and so of absolute necessity: for then good men must grow to be old men, ⟨p. 26⟩and all which dye young, should dye wicked and damned: but that God hath the keeping of their lives in such good safety as they shall never be taken away before due season: they shall not die so soon as that it would be better for them to live longer: nor live so long as that it might be hurtful that they died not sooner. This point doth Eliphas truly expound to Job, and all other righteous persons