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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.
As the whirl wind passeth, so is the wicked no more: Verse. 25 but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
As the whirle winde passeth, so is the wicked no more: Verse. 25 but the righteous is an euerlasting foundation.
The meaning of the words is, that ungodly men, howsoever they flourish for a time, yet do suddenly come to ruin, and destruction, as the whirl-wind swiftly bloweth over, and ⟨p. 110⟩is less constant, and permanent then the ordinary wind is, though there be no stability in any. But when it is said, they are no more, he doth not intimate any mortality of their souls, as though they should be wholly dissolved as brute beasts: for their souls are everlasting as well as Gods peoples, and their bodies shall be raised up again at the day of the Lord aswell as the Saints: but it is their hope and happiness, and not their being that perisheth, they shall never recover any good estate any more. Now against these are set the righteous, whose soul, and body, and blessedness have a settled safety as a foundation that can never be removed: So that this is the opposition: the wicked are as a whirl-wind, and so are no more: but the righteous are like a firm foundation, and so perpetually remain.
The meaning of the words is, that vngodly men, howsoeuer they flourish for a time, yet doe sodainely come to ruine, and destruction, as the whirle-winde swiftly bloweth ouer, and ⟨p. 110⟩is lesse constant, and permanent then the ordinary winde is, though there bee no stabilitie in any. But when it is said, they are no more, he doth not intimate any mortalitie of their soules, as though they should be wholy dissolued as brute beasts: for their soules are euerlasting as well as Gods peoples, and their bodies shall be raised vp againe at the day of the Lord aswell as the Saints: but it is their hope and happinesse, and not their being that perisheth, they shall neuer recouer any good estate any more. Now against these are set the righteous, whose soule, and body, and blessednesse haue a setled safetie as a foundation that can neuer be remoued: So that this is the opposition: the wicked are as a whirle-winde, and so are no more: but the righteous are like a firme foundation, and so perpetually remaine.