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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.
They are the best parents which show love to their children, Doct. without fondness.
They are the best parents which shew loue to their children, Doct. without fondnes.
Fond love is cruel hatred, a cockering father is a deadly foe, and they that most faithfully exercise Gods discipline towards their sons and daughters, do prove to be their surest friends. The admonition which is given to parents in another Chapter of this book, tendeth wholly to this purpose. Correct thy son 1while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare, which is to kill him. The Holy ghost maketh them accessary to the destruction of their children, which be so indulgent unto them, and tender over them, as that their hearts will not yield to give them correction. The example of God himself, the father of spirits doth evidently confirm our point in hand. His love to every one of his children doth infinitely surmount the love of all the fathers in the world to theirs, and he doth not only declare it unto them by promises, and blessings, but likewise many times by chastisements and crosses: insomuch that the Apostle saith to the Hebrews: Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth: and scourgeth every 2son that he receiveth. If therefore ye be without correction, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Fond loue is cruell hatred, a cockering father is a deadly foe, and they that most faithfully exercise Gods discipline towardes their sonnes and daughters, doe proue to be their surest friends. The admonition which is giuen to parents in another Chapter of this booke, tendeth wholly to this purpose. Correct thy sonne 1while there is hope, and let not thy soule spare, which is to kill him. The Holy ghost maketh them accessary to the destruction of their children, which be so indulgent vnto them, and tender ouer them, as that their hearts will not yeeld to giue them correction. The example of God himselfe, the father of spirits doh euidently confirme our point in hand. His loue to euery one of his children doth infinitely surmount the loue of all the fathers in the world to theirs, and he doth not only declare it vnto them by promises, and blessings, but likewise many times by chastisements and crosses: insomuch that the Apostle saith to the Hebrewes: Whome the Lord loueth he chasteneth: and scourgeth euery