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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.
Verse 25. The liberal soul shall wax fat, and he that giveth plentifully shall pour forth.
Verse 25. The liberall soule shall waxe fat, and hee that giueth plentifullie shall powre forth.
These words have affinity with the former part of the verse next before, and are joined to it partly in way of explication, and partly in way of illustration. And therefore first he showeth who obtain that blessing to increase by scattering, & that is they whose liberality beginneth at their hearts: and then he declareth the prosperous success thereof by a similitude from well-springs which receive as much water inwardly, as they send forth outwardly, which, if they should fail of issue, would also fail of fullness, the waters diverting their course some other way, where they might have better passage, or else infusing themselves in the earth, and mould of the adjacent places round about, and so make a quagmire. The same comparison doth Isaiah use for the same purpose: The Lord shall satisfy thy soul continually in drought, ⟨p. 89⟩1and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
THese words haue affinitie with the former part of the verse next before, and are ioyned to it partly in way of explication, and partly in way of illustration. And therfore first he sheweth who obtaine that blessing to increase by scattring, & that is they whose liberalitie beginneth at their hearts: and then he declareth the prosperous successe thereof by a similitude from wel-springs which receiue as much water inwardly, as they send forth outwardly, which, if they should faile of issue, would also faile of fulnes, the waters diuerting their course some other way, where they might haue better passage, or else infusing themselues in the earth, and mould of the adiacent places round about, and so make a quagmire. The same comparison doth Isaiah vse for the same purpose: The Lord shall satisfie thy soule continually in drought,