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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 labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the revenues Verse. 16 of the wicked, to sin.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the reuenues Verse. 16 of the wicked, to sinne.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life, &c. That is, the goods which good men usually get by travel, (though many times they are descended to them by inheritance, or bestowed upon them by gift, or by some other lawful means brought to their hands) tendeth to life, viz. both of soul, and body, in this world, and for the world to come: whereas the riches of ungodly men are always abused by them, and made the occasions, and means of unrighteousness. The opposition is this: the riches of the righteous do tend to goodness, and so to their life: but the wealth of the wicked doth tend to sin, and so to their death.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life, &c. That is, the goods which good men vsually get by trauell, (though many times they are descended to them by inheritance, or bestowed vpon them by gift, or by some other lawfull meanes brought to their hands) tendeth to life, viz. both of soule, and body, in this world, and for the world to come: whereas the riches of vngodly men are alwayes abused by them, and made the occasions, and meanes of vnrighteousnesse. The opposition is this: the riches of the righteous do tend to goodnesse, and so to their life: but the wealth of the wicked doth tend to sin, and so to their death.
Riches are either profitable or hurtful according to the Doct. owners, and usage of them. The prosperity of Abraham, Job, 1and other holy men is commended in the word of God, for the great good that they did, and received thereby: and the Prophets, and other holy writings do as much condemn the opulency, and wealth of the enemies of God, as making them to be most mischievous and miserable.