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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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Reasons. 1 First, their matter will help their memory: for that which is trueth once, will be trueth ever, so that the same ground and subject remaineth still to repeat, and reiterate, as was to be spoken of at the beginning.
Reasons. 1 First, their matter will helpe their memorie: for that which is trueth once, will be trueth euer, so that the same ground and subiect remaineth still to repeate, and reiterate, as was to bee spoken of at the beginning.
Secondly, the same spirit that worketh a love & conscience of the truth, whereby men are made to be true, doth never cease to be the same: therefore as it seasoneth the heart, & guided the heart at the first, so it will stablish the heart, and direct the lips to the end. For sincerity, and uprightness is of all things most durable, & least subject to alteration and change. And that S. Paul assigneth for a cause of his unvariable constancy, that he minded not those things which he did mind according to the flesh, whereby there should be with him, yea, yea, and nay, nay. 2. Cor. 1. 17. Now liars do want all these helps: they had need to have good memories, to remember what they said before, lest they tell a contrary tale: for the thing related cannot put them in mind of it. For they use not to frame their words to the verity of the matter which they speak of, and to the serving of their own turns, and effecting of their purposes, as he speaketh of the unconscionable chapman: It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is 1gone apart he boasteth. A notable example of a wandering, unregenerate, and unstable tongue speaking contrarieties almost with the same breath, is to be seen in that blasphemous railing Rabshakeh whom the King of Ashur sent against Jerusalem in the time of Hezekiah. In the entrance of his speech he seemed to be all for the Lord: he taxeth Hezekiah for taking down his hie places and altars, he pretendeth obedience unto him, as though he came thither by his commandment, saying, The Lord said, Go up against this land, and destroy it. But before he had made an