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A plain and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs…
A plain and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by R.B. for Roger Jackson, 1608London: printed by R.B. for Roger Iackson, 1608
AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS. › Chapter 13
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Humility is ever joined with love; and both of them with mildness and patience, and all of them are enemies to bitterness and debate. No man was more ready to pass by wrongs and injuries1 done unto him then Moses, and that was because Moses exceeded all the men of his time in humility and meekness. And Jesus Christ was the most patient and peaceable of any that ever was in the world, because never any was so humble and lowly as he. And thus very reason among divers others, is brought in the twelfth chapter of Saint Matthew to prove it: He shall not strive 2nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. And contrariwise it hath appeared in all ages that where pride is deepest, there patience is shallowest, and they that overflow with the one, are void and empty of the other: And therefore the wise man opposeth them together as contraries, saying, the patient in spirit 3is better then the proud in spirit. And in another place: He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife. And this will appear the better4 ⟨p. 28⟩if we observe the principal branches which the venomous sap of pride breaketh out into.
Humility is euer ioyned with loue; and both of them with mildnes and patience, and all of them are enemies to bitternesse and debate. No man was more ready to passe by wrongs and iniuries1 done vnto him then Moses, and that was because Moses exceeded all the men of his time in humility and meeknes. And Iesus Christ was the most patient and peaceable of any that euer was in the world, because neuer any was so humble and lowly as he. And thus very reason among diuers others, is brought in the twelfth chapter of Saint Mathew to proue it: He shall not striue 2nor crie, neither shall any man heare his voice in the streetes. And contrarywise it hath appeared in all ages that where pride is deepest, there patience is shallowest, and they that ouerflow with the one, are voide and empty of the other: And therefore the wise man opposeth them together as contraries, saying, the patient in spirit