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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.
Though the state of the ungodly be more ruffling, then the Doct. servants of God, yet the state of Gods servants is more certain 1and stable then the ungodly ones. The whirl wind mounteth aloft, and tosseth up hay, and straw, and stubble, and filleth mens eyes with dust, and cometh violently upon them with a blustering blast, but immediately it is gone, & passed far away: the foundation lieth low in the ground, and is neither seen, nor heard, yet there it continueth immovable for many generations. The unconstant, and tickle estate of wicked men is fitly expressed by lively comparisons in the prophecy of Hosea. They shall be as the morning cloud, and as the morning dew 2that passeth away as the chase that is driven with a whirl wind out of the floor, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney. The contrary similitude, and stability of the Godly is by our Saviour himself likened to an house that is built on a rock: and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and 3beat that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rock.
Though the state of the vngodly be more ruffling, then the Doct. seruants of God, yet the state of Gods seruants is more certaine 1and stable then the vngodly ones. The whirle winde mounteth aloft, and tosseth vp hay, and straw, and stubble, and filleth mens eyes with dust, and commeth violently vpon them with a blustering blast, but immediately it is gone, & passed far away: the foundation lyeth low in the ground, and is neither seene, nor heard, yet there it continueth immoueable for many generations. The vnconstant, and tickle estate of wicked men is fitly expressed by liuely comparisons in the prophesie of Hosea. They shall be as the morning cloud, and as the morning dew 2that passeth away as the chasse that is driuen with a whirle winde out of the floore, and as the smoake that goeth out of the chimney. The contrary stimitude, and stabilitie of the Godly is by our Sauiour himselfe likened to an house that is built on a rocke: and the raine fell, and the flouds came, and the windes blew, and