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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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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? Luke 16. Though their flesh, and eyes be not devoured of Ravens and Eagles, yet if their souls and bodies be an everlasting pray to eternal death, how much is their misery abated?
Thirdly, the perill of contemptuous children is so great, and §3their punishment shall be so grieuous, as that happy is euery one that auoydeth that their sinne. The eie that mocketh his father, or 1despiseth the instruction of his mother, let the Rauens of the vallie ⟨p. 3⟩picke it out, and the young Eagles eate it. Such a one is like to suffer a violent, and shamefull death, and to want an honourable, and honest buriall, either hanging on a gibbet, or lying in a ditch, and so exposed to crowes, and Kites, and other rauenous soules, that feede on carrions. Now though it be true, that many of them escape this ignominious end here, yet neither is this a wish without successe, nor a threatning without execution. Though their bodies come not at the gibbet, yet if their soules go to hell, what are they the better for being buried, as the rich man was?