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A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes…
A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes of Salomon
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Henry Sharpe, 1607London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Henrie Sharpe, 1607
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 wicked worketh a deceitful work] He is continually practising of some evil, which will never fail, to make his expectation to fail. But he that soweth righteousness, which constantly, and conscionably is exercised in doing good, shall have a sure reward, partly in this life, with a competent measure of comfortable prosperity, and perfectly in the life to come, with glorious immortality. The sense will be the better discerned, if the opposition be set down in this manner: The wicked worketh a deceitful work by sowing of iniquity, and therefore shall be deceived in his reward: but the godly worketh a faithful work by sowing of righteousness, and therefore shall receive a sure reward.
THe wicked worketh a deceitfull worke] He is continually practising of some euill, which will neuer faile, to make his expectation to faile. But he that soweth righteousnes, which constantly, and conscionably is exercised in doing good, shall haue a sure reward, partly in this life, with a competent measure of comfortable prosperitie, and perfectly in the life to come, with glorious immortalitie. The sense will bee the better discerned, if the opposition be set downe in this manner: The wicked worketh a deceitfull worke by sowing of iniquitie, and therefore shall bee deceiued in his reward: but the godly worketh a faithfull worke by sowing of righteousnesse, and therefore shall receiue a sure reward.
Doct. 1 Ungodly men shall be sure to find their sins more dangerous and hurtful then they looked for. Their familiar friend whom they love so dearly, and make so much of, which is most in their mouths, in their hearts, and in all their ways, it will surely show them a slippery trick at the last. Saint Paul can say ⟨p. 58⟩as much to this point, as any man, by the experience he had of it. Few had nearer acquaintance with it then he at the beginning, and none had a greater breach with it in the end then he. And then he keepeth no counsel, but telleth all that he found (and God averreth all that he telleth) that sin had deceived him, and 1