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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.
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.
There is a way,) namely, a lewd and sinful course of life, that seemeth right to a man, which wicked men persuade themselves to be free from dangers. It is agreeable to their lusts, and carnal reason: it maketh either for their pleasures, or profits: they have been long acquainted with it: they have found prosperous success by it: they see the greater personages, and number of men to travel in it: and therefore conclude of safety therein. But the issues thereof are the ways of death, it is certain that the beginning of it, and first steppe into it, did tend to death, but when they have proceeded in it, they shall come at the last to their journeys end, and that is to be destroyed for ever.