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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
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Reproof of them that disdain this calling, scorning to be of it, or to put their children to it, as accounting, and calling them hinds, and clowns, and peasants, and contemptible persons, that be of that profession. It is a righteous hand of God upon us, that tillage is so much decayed, because it is no better regarded: and that there should be so much detracted daily from the employment of men, because there are so few men that are willing to be employed in it. Notwithstanding it is their great sin, as may appear by the premisses, which do what they can, for their parts, to defraud the land of so ancient, honest, profitable, and necessary a trade and vocation.
Reproofe of them that disdaine this calling, scorning to be of it, or to put their children to it, as accounting, and calling them hindes, and clownes, and peasants, and contemptible persons, that be of that profession. It is a righteous hand of God vpon vs, that tillage is so much decaied, because it is no better regarded: and that there should bee so much detracted daily from the imployment of men, because there are so few men that are willing to be imployed in it. Notwithstanding it is their great sinne, as may appeare by the premisses, which doe what they can, for their parts, to defraud the land of so ancient, honest, profitable, and necessarie a trade and vocation.
Doct. But he that followeth the idle, &c. They that dispose themselves to idleness, shall neither want example nor company in it.
Doct. But he that followeth the idle, &c. They that dispose themselues to idlenes, shall neither want example nor companie in it.
They shall have all enticements and allurements to draw them to it, and hold them in it, so soon as they have any inclination that way. They shall not be the first inventors of that trade, but others have used it before them, and divers will practise it with them. They shall find the ice broken to them, and a path beaten out for them, and all inducements to bring them into the snare.