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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.
On a seat, &c. Great men without grace be as much subject Doct. to sin and folly as poor men. The scripture confirmeth 1this when it compareth such kind of persons to viler creatures. Psal. 49. 20. Man in honour which understandeth not is like to beasts that perish. He dispraiseth not all men of honour: for when wisdom and dignity meet together, the one is an ornament to the other: but those that be destitute of understanding, he matcheth not with common men or vilest people, but maketh equal to the basest kind of brutish beasts.
On a seate, &c. Great men without grace bee as much subiect Doct. to sinne and folly as poore men. The scripture confirmeth 1this when it compareth such kinde of persons to viler creatures. Psal. 49. 20. Man in honour which vnderstandeth not is like to beastes that perish. He dispraiseth not all men of honour: for when wisedome and dignitie meete together, the one is an ornament to the other: but those that bee destitute of vnderstanding, hee matcheth not with common men or vilest people, but maketh equall to the basest kinde of brutish beastes.
- 1Great men ungracious may be as sinful as any.Great men vngratious may be as sinfull as any.
First, they have the same root, and fountain of corruption Reasons. 1 which is in all other men.
First, they haue the same roote, and fountaine of corruption Reasons. 1 which is in all other men.