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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 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.
When he speaketh of that which is present, he resēbleth the cōdition of the one sort, to strōg & stately houses, & the other to weak & low tents: but when he foretelleth their condition to come, he threateneth to the one destruction & ruine, and promiseth to the other prosperity & groweth. See this point handled in the tenth chapter, v. 25. vpon these words. As the whirle-wind passeth, so is the wicked no more but the righteous is an euerlasting foundacion. And in the twelsth chapter. ver. 7. where it is said that God ouerthroweth the wicked, and they are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Verse 12. There is await that seemeth right to a man: but the issues thereof are the ways of death.
Verse 12. There is await that seemeth right to a man: but the issues thereof are the waies of death.