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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.
Wise men, &c. It is not enough to bring the ear to hear holy Doct. 1 instructions, but the heart must also receive and keep them. 1The necessity of this duty appeareth by the serious exhortation which he giveth to that purpose in the beginning of the seventh Chapter. My Son keep my words, and hide my commandments with thee: keep my commandments, and thou shalt live, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes. He giveth this counsel as a friend, to a near friend, as a father to his own son, for the matter of it is not of small importance, but of the greatest weight and moment, it behooveth men not only to lay sure hold of holy doctrines in regard of state, but of their very lives. And therefore not to look to the ⟨p. 85⟩safe keeping thereof as we are chary of our money, but to be as provident that we be not spoiled of them, as we are watchful to preserve the members, yea the dearest members of our bodies from violence.
Wise men, &c. It is not inough to bring the eare to heare holy Doct. 1 instructions, but the heart must also receiue and keepe them. 1The necessitie of this duetie appeareth by the serious exhortation which he giueth to that purpose in the beginning of the seuenth Chapter. My Sonne keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes. Hee giueth this counsell as a friend, to a neare friend, as a father to his owne sonne, for the matter of it is not of small importance, but of the greatest weight and moment, it behooueth men not onely to lay sure hold of holy doctrines in regard of state, but of their very liues. And therefore not to looke to the ⟨p. 85⟩safe keeping thereof as we are chary of our money, but to be as prouident that we be not spoyled of them, as we are watchfull to preserue the members, yea the dearest members of our bodies from violence.
- 1What good the •••e layeth in, that the heart must lay up.