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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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Secondly, the lessons of godly parents be very forcible, when §2they be duly embraced of obedient children. Their instructions and prayers join together: their tongues and hearts go together: and their exhortations and Gods blessing work together for good effect and profit. And by this means are many prepared to live as holy Christians, under the minister in the Church: and as faithful subjects. under the magistrate in the common weal: and as fruitful persons for themselves and others, in their several callings.
Secondly, the lessons of godly parents be very forcible, when §2they be duely imbraced of obedient children. Their instructions and praiers ioyne together: their tongues and hearts go together: and their exhortations and Gods blessing worke togeather for good effect and profite. And by this meanes are many prepared to liue as holy Christians, vnder the minister in the Church: and as faithfull subiects. vnder the magistrate in the common weale: and as fruitfull persons for themselues and others, in their seuerall callings.
Thirdly, the peril of contemptuous children is so great, and §3their punishment shall be so grievous, as that happy is every one that avoideth that their sin. The eye that mocketh his father, or 1despiseth the instruction of his mother, let the Ravens of the valley ⟨p. 3⟩pick it out, and the young Eagles eat it. Such a one is like to suffer a violent, and shameful death, and to want an honourable, and honest burial, either hanging on a gibbet, or lying in a ditch, and so exposed to crows, and Kites, and other ravenous souls, that feed on carrions. Now though it be true, that many of them escape this ignominious end here, yet neither is this a wish without success, nor a threatening without execution. Though their bodies come not at the gibbet, yet if their souls go to hell, what are they the better for being buried, as the rich man was?