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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.
Verse 24. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the deceitful shall be under tribute.
Verse 24. The hand of the diligent shall beare rule: but the deceitfull shall be vnder tribute.
The hand of the diligent, that is, diligent men who use their hands, or other members of their bodies, or else their minds to some honest and profitable travel according to their calling, shall bear rule, and attain to some good place of estimation. But idle persons whom want and other occasions draw to deceitful courses to shift for themselves, as we have showed in the fourth verse of the tenth chapter, shall be made underlings, and brought into subjection and servility.
THe hand of the diligent, that is, diligent men who vse their hands, or other members of their bodies, or else their minds to some honest and profitable trauell according to their calling, shall beare rule, and attaine to some good place of estimation. But idle persons whom want and other occasions draw to deceitfull courses to shift for themselues, as wee haue shewed in the fourth verse of the tenth chapter, shall be made vnderlings, and brought into subiection and seruilitie.
Doct. They which are laborious and faithful in mean places, do take the way to rise to an higher degree.
Doct. They which are laborious and faithfull in meane places, doe take the way to rise to an higher degree.