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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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Doct. 2 But the frowardness] Wicked sinners are greatest workers of their own woe. They shall be taken in their own wickedness, saith the sixth verse: they shall fall in their own wickedness, saith the fifth: their frowardness shall destroy them, saith this. Whereby it appeareth that their misery cometh not from others, as an accidental occasion, but groweth from themselves as the proper cause: neither is it an ordinary evil that is recurable, but a desperate ruin that is remediless: neither yet is it the subversion of their state, or killing of their body, which is but temporary, but the perdition both of body and soul which is everlasting. To this agreeth that which is spoken to the same purpose, in the fifth chapter: His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he 1shall be holden with the cords of his own sin. He shall die for fault of instruction, and for going astray through his own folly.
Doct. 2 But the frowardnesse] Wicked sinners are greatest workers of their owne woe. They shall be taken in their owne wickednes, saith the sixt verse: they shall fall in their owne wickednes, saith the fift: their frowardnes shall destroy them, saith this. Whereby it appeareth that their miserie commeth not from others, as an accidentall occasion, but groweth from themselues as the proper cause: neither is it an ordinarie euill that is recurable, but a desperate ruine that is remedilesse: neither yet is it the subuersion of their state, or killing of their bodie, which is but temporarie, but the perdition both of bodie and soule which is euerlasting. To this agreeth that which is spoken to the same purpose, in the fift chapter: His owne iniquitie shall take the wicked himselfe, and hee 1shall be holden with the cords of his owne sinne. He shall die for fault of instruction, and for going astray through his owne follie.