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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.
Consolation to them that bring an upright heart to selling, though they cannot be so large in giving: therein they do a service to God; therein they perform a work of love to their neighbours: and therefore they shall be better satisfied at Gods hand than at the buyers: and his pay will be better in grace and goodness, than the other can be in gold and silver.
Consolation to them that bring an vpright heart to selling, though they cannot be so large in giuing: therein they doe a seruice to God; therein they performe a worke of loue to their neighbours: and therefore they shall be better satisfied at Gods hand than at the buyers: and his pay will be better in grace and goodnes, than the other can be in gold and siluer.
Doct. 2 The people will curse him, &c. It is a grievous plague to be pursued justly with the cries and clamours of the people. True it is that Jeremiah and others of the most faithful servants of God have been spoken evil of, and cursed by the multitude. And so it is 1true that as the sparrow by flying, and the swallow by flying escape, so 2the curse that is causeless shall not come. And it is most true, they whom men revile and persecute, and say all manner of evil for Christ his sake falsely, are blessed. But this is also very true, that to be spoken against for sins sake, truly, is not a matter of blessedness, but misery: the wings of a mans name & reputation will be clipped so short that it shall not avoid the stroke and shot of a curse, if it be duly caused. In this same manner are hurtful men threatened, which flatter, or countenance, or bear out wicked persons in their sinful courses. He that saith to the wicked, thou art righteous, him shall the people curse, and the multitude shall abhor him. Pro. 24. 24.