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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.
Hatred, and all uncharitable affections, as envy and wrath, Stirreth up strife, worketh all kind of revenge and mischief, as backbiting, upbraiding with former faults, and very often procureth iniust criminations. But love covereth all trespasses, by forgiving them and reproving them in friendly manner, and by concealing them from all those, to whom the knowledge of them hath not come, or doth not appertain. ⟨p. 80⟩The opposition is thus framed: Hatred stirreth up contentions, and blazeth abroad mens infirmities, but love seeketh peace and covereth all trespasses.
Hatred, and all vncharitable affections, as enuie and wrath, Stirreth vp strife, worketh all kind of reuenge and mischiefe, as backbiting, obbrayding with former faults, and very often procureth iniust criminations. But loue couereth all trespasses, by forgiuing them and reprouing them in friendly manner, and by concealing them from all those, to whom the knowledge of them hath not come, or doth not appertaine. ⟨p. 80⟩The opposition is thus framed: Hatred stirreth vp contentions, and blazeth abroad mens infirmities, but loue seeketh peace and couereth all trespasses.
Hatred. The actions and speeches of men are not so much Doct. a cause of strife and debate, as the evil affections of their harts. 1Divers times it falleth out that the wrong doer, is not so much faulty as he that should better bear it: & no injuries could work a quarrelous contention, unless there were a defect of love on both sides. It is said, Chap. 18. 6. That a fools lips come with strife. It is not the occasion given, so much as the lips that make the breach: and the lips could not do it, unless the man set them on work, and the man would not so set them on work, unless folly and sin overruled both him and his lips, So Chap. 15. 18. Angry men are brought in for the authors of strife, but he that is slow to wrath hath this testimony given him, that he will appease it. What was the reason why Josephs brethren had such a quarrel at him? Because they saw their father love him more then all the rest, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.