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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.
How long wilt thou forget me O Lord, for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel within my 1self, having weariness daily in mine heart?
How long wilt thou forget me O Lord, for euer? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsell within my 1selfe, hauing wearines daily in mine heart?
First, that which men desire with hope and yet cannot have it, Reasons. doth work in them a more sensible feeling of their need, and so they are punished with the pain of hunger and thirst. And so, as food long kept from the stomach, doth bring the body to weakness; even so the thing longed for, prolonged, doth drive the soul to faintness.
First, that which men desire with hope and yet cannot haue it, Reasons. doth worke in them a more sensible feeling of their need, and so they are punished with the paine of hunger and thirst. And so, as foode long kept from the stomack, doth bring the body to weaknes; euen so the thing longed for, prolonged, doth driue the soule to faintnes.
Secondly, it commonly cometh to pass even to good men, §2