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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.
Consolation, if good men, notwithstanding their great infirmities, §2and corruptions, have yet such sincerity in speaking, and such fidelity in performing that which they speak: how shall not the righteous God (in comparison of whom all men are liars, and who is not so properly called true, as truth, & all his words verity it self) how shall not he, I say, fulfil all his promises, and stand to his covenants that he hath made with his people? He hath undertaken for their salvation, their maintenance, protection, safety from satan, deliverance from tyrants and persecutors, and shall not all this be accomplished? is not all pure metal that he pronounceth? is it not as silver tried seven fold in the sire? Psal. 12. 6. If he should fail of his word, he should forget his truth, and in forgetting his truth, should forgo his nature, and consequently should forfeit his deity, which were an execrable thing so much as to conceive.
Consolation, if good men, notwithstanding their great infirmities, §2and corruptions, haue yet such sinceritie in speaking, and such fidelitie in performing that which they speake: how shall not the righteous God (in comparison of whom all men are lyars, and who is not so properly called true, as truth, & all his words veritie it selfe) how shall not hee, I say, fulfill all his promises, and stand to his couenants that hee hath made with his people? Hee hath vndertaken for their saluation, their maintenance, protection, safety from sathan, deliuerance from tirants and persecutors, and shall not all this bee accomplished? is not all pure mettall that he pronounceth? is it not as siluer tried seauen fold in the sire? Psal. 12. 6. If hee should faile of his word, he should forget his truth, and in forgetting his truth, should forgoe his nature, and consequently should forfeite his deitie, which were an execrable thing so much as to conceiue.