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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.
The comfort or sorrow of parents standeth much in the behaviour Doct. of their children. This is evident by the example of 1Jacobs sons: whereof Joseph a gracious child, was never but a refreshing to him: but Simeon, and Reuben, and Levi, and most of the rest, by their sinful actions did fill him with grief and afflictions: and so had David experience both ways, being pierced with sorrow on the one side, by the villainous practises & miserable ends of Absalom and Ammon: and abounding with joy on the other side for the singular wisdom of Solomon.
The comfort or sorrow of parents standeth much in the behauiour Doct. of their children. This is euident by the example of 1Iacobs sonnes: whereof Ioseph a gracious child, was neuer but a refreshing to him: but Simeon, and Reuben, and Leny, and most of the rest, by their sinfull actions did fill him with griefe and afflictions: and so had Dauid experience both waies, being peirced with sorrow on the one side, by the villanous practises & miserable ends of Absolon and Ammon: and abounding with ioy on the other side for the singular wisedome of Salomon.
- 1A good sonne makes a glad father.
First, these affections do proceed from the love that godly Reason. parents do bear unto God, that thinking all too little that is done in his services, they have now helpers even out of their own loins, that will join with them in the same: and when they have finished their course and ended their own days work, yet the work shall still be continued by their posterity. We see in humane affairs, that every good subject will be glad to breed up a son that will be sit and able to serve his sovereign: and how can it then but cheer up the heart and refresh the spirits of Christian fathers or mothers to have their children the Lords Soldiers, valiantly sighting his battles against sin and Satan, and that in their own sight and presence? every good master, as was Abraham, will think it a benefit to have his servants to be the servants of the Lord: and every Christian will gladly hear of Godly men, in another family, in another town, in another country, in another