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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.
Doct. They much be wray and lay open their folly that are given to be hasty to anger.
Doct. They much be wray and lay open their folly that are giuen to be hastie to anger.
God did see it before within, but now men shall also discern it without: that which formerly did lurk in the soul will break out by this into sight. It will show it self in their countenance, in their gestures, in their words, in their actions. And therefore it is said that the discretion of a man deferreth his anger: and his glory 1is to pass by an offence.
God did see it before within, but now men shall also discerne it without: that which formerlie did lurke in the soule will breake out by this into sight. It will shew it selfe in their countenance, in their gestures, in their words, in their actions. And therefore it is said that the discretion of a man deferreth his anger: and his glory 1is to passe by an offence.
Reasons. First the original and root of this rash and hasty anger is sinful and evil: it proceedeth from the corruption of nature: it is the work of the flesh, and a limb of the old man; Gal. 5. 20. ⟨p. 158⟩