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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.
Confutation of them that justify Popery, and the corruptions §2of it by this, that many take part with it. Much is said for it, great commendation is given of it. All this is true, it is much praised, but only by the foolish babbling woman: they are full of speech, and frequent in writing, and yet do nothing else, but foam out froth, and falsehood. If multitude, or cries of commendations were sufficient to credit a cause, and clea•e it. Diana, were a glorious goddess, so highly magnified, by the general applause of the Ephesians. Act. 19. 28. Secondly, of such as take it for an invincible testimony against the Gospel, and the sincere professors of it, that they be so much blamed, and so many profess their dislike of them So they dealt with Jeremiah, though he neither bought, nor sold with them, nor offered any colour of injury to them, yet every man spake evil of him. Jer. 1•. 10. So Christianity in Pauls time was counted a sect, and every where spoken against. And so our Saviour himself had the sentence of death enforced upon him by the violent cry of the people.
Confutation of them that iustifie Popery, and the corruptions §2of it by this, that many take part with it. Much is said for it, great commendation is giuen of it. All this is true, it is much praised, but onely by the foolish babling woman: they are full of speech, and frequent in writing, and yet doe nothing else, but fome out froth, and falsehoode. If multitude, or cries of commendations were sufficient to credit a cause, and clea•e it. Diaua, were a glorious goddesse, so highly magnified, by the generall applause of the Ephesians. Act. 19. 28. Secondly, of such as take it for an inuincible testimonie against the Gospell, and the sincere professors of it, that they be so much blamed, and so many professe their dislike of them So they dealt with Ieremie, though he neither bought, nor sould with them, nor offred any colour of iniurie to them, yet euery man spake euill of him.