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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
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.
The first is self-liking, a high estimation of their own worthiness Reasons. 1 and desert, which they take for a great indignity, not to be as much respected of others. And this maketh them so angry and fierce and implacable against those, which cross them in their commodities, or be not tractable to yield to all their desires.
The first is self-liking, a high estimation of their owne worthines Reasons. 1 and desert, which they take for a great indignity, not to be asmuch respected of others. And this maketh them so angry and fierce and implacable against those, which crosse them in theyr commodities, or be not tractable to yeeld to all their desires.
The second is emulation whereby they enviously repine and §2quarrel at those gifts and good things which they behold in others, whom themselves are unable to match, or at least to surmount and overpass therein.
The second is emulation whereby they enuiously repine and §2quarrell at those gifts and good things which they behold in others, whom themselues are vnable to match, or at least to surmount and ouerpasse therein.
The third is contempt and disdain, when they conceive a base §3opinion of their brethren, as of unworthy and vile persons, and fear not to load them with despite and contumelies, or to neglect all manner of duty towards them.
The third is contempt and disdaine, when they conceiue a base