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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.
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.
THere is a waie,) namelie, a lewd and sinfull course of life, that seemeth right to a man, which wicked men perswade themselues to be free from dangers. It is agreeable to their lusts, and carnall reason: it maketh either for their pleasures, or profits: they haue beeue long acquainted with it: they haue found prosperous successe by it: they see the greater personages, and number of mē to trauell in it: and therfore conclude of safety therein. But the issues thereof are the waies of death, it is certain that the beginning of it, and first steppe into it, did tend to death, but when they haue proceeded in it, they shall come at the last to their iourneys end, and that is to be destroyed for euer.
Wicked men are most bold and confident in that which is most Doct. sinful and dangerous.
Wicked men are most bold and confident in that which is most Doct. sinfull and dangerous.
Then many look for commendation, and think their works to be most allowable, when shame is due unto them, and their ways are altogether abominable. Then they hope for greatest safety, and to be far enough from all manner of peril, when they make hast to their undoing, and run with all speed towards destruction. See the twelfth chapter. ver. 15. Where the same matter hath been handled by occasion of the like words, that The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.