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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
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 house of the wicked) the wicked himself and his whole estate, shall be destroyed, shall be overthrown and rooted cut by the curse of God, either suddenly, & all at once, as is to be seen in some or in continuance of time, & by degrees, as it falleth out to others. But the tabernacle of the righteous, his habitation himself, & those things which belong unto him, shall flourish, shall be blessed of God and made prosperous. Doct.
THe house of the wicked) the wicked himselfe and his whole estate, shall bee destroied, shall be ouerthorwn and rooted cut by the curse of God, eyther suddēly, & all at once, as is to be seen in some or in continuāce of time, & by degrees, as it falleth out to others. But the tabernacle of the righteous, his habitation himselfe, & those things which belong vnto him, shall flourish, shall be blessed of God and made prosperous. Doct.
The mean estate of the godly is safer, and better than the great prosperity of sinners.
The mean estate of the godly is safer, and better than the greate prosperity of sinners.
When he speaketh of that which is present, he resembleth the condition of the one sort, to strong & stately houses, & the other to weak & low tents: but when he foretelleth their condition to come, he threateneth to the one destruction & ruin, and promiseth to the other prosperity & groweth. See this point handled in the tenth chapter, v. 25. upon these words. As the whirl-wind passeth, so is the wicked no more but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. And in the twelfth chapter. ver. 7. where it is said that God overthroweth the wicked, and they are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.