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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 riches of iniquity. No wicked worldling is any thing Doct. the better for his wealth which thing the Prophet David had 1well considered of, and therefore confidently affirmeth. Psal. 39. 6. doubtless (saith he) Man walketh by a vain image, he heapeth up riches, & cannot tell who shall gather them. He speaketh not of a particular, as though some one man were fallen into that error, but of the whole body of mankind, in that case as they are descended from Adam. Every man that hath nothing but the nature of man, doth take a show for a substance, the image in the glass for the face represented by it: the picture of happiness which is painted on riches, for true and solid felicity: and therefore they miss of that which they make most account of, for they have gathered together goods, and others shall gather the good comfort and fruit of them: and whether they have provided for their own, or for aliens, for friends, or for foes, they are altogether uncertain.
The riches of iniquitie. No wicked worldling is any thing Doct. the better for his wealth which thing the Prophet Dauid had 1well considered of, and therefore confidently affirmeth. Psal. 39. 6. doubtlesse (saith hee) Man walketh by a vaine image, hee heapeth vp riches, & cannot tell who shall gather them. He speaketh not of a particular, as though some one man were falne into that errour, but of the whole body of mankinde, in that case as they are descended from Adam. Euery man that hath nothing but the nature of man, doth take a shew for a substance, the image in the glasse for the face represented by it: the picture of happinesse which is painted on riches, for true and solide felicitie: and therefore they misse of that which they make most account of, for they haue gathered together goods, and others shall gather the good comfort and fruite of them: and whether they haue prouided for their owne, or for aliants, for friends, or for foes, they are altogether vncertaine.
- 1Wicked mens wealth do them no goodWicked mens wealth doe them no good