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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
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Instruction that we fear not sin the less, because that sinners Use. 1 seem to be troubled at it so little: that we yield not to the baits of it the more, because they rejoice at it so much: for who but God & themselves do know what slavish dread is in their harts, when their greatest show of magnanimity is in their faces? ⟨p. 107⟩What bitter sorrow is in their souls, when dainty morsels are in their mouths, and pleasant music in their ears, and merry sonnets in their lips? But what life is more delightful, and what state more desirable then theirs which continually follow their sports & pleasures, which always converse with merry companions, which every day & at every meal do eat and drink of the best & fairest? But what life is more loathsome▪ & what state more miserable then theirs who are driven continually to use those exercises for physic, without which the heart would be oppressed with fits of fears, and wast away with the consumption of the spirits.
Jnstruction that we feare not sin the lesse, because that sinners Vse. 1 seeme to be troubled at it so little: that we yeeld not to the baites of it the more, because they reioyce at it so much: for who but God & themselues do know what slauish dread is in their harts, when their greatest shew of magnanimity is in their faces? ⟨p. 107⟩VVhat bitter sorrow is in their soules, when dainty morsels are in their mouthes, and pleasant musick in their eares, and merry sonnettes in their lippes? But what life is more delightfull, and what state more desireable then theirs which continually follow their sports & pleasures, which alwaies conuerse with merry companions, which euery day & at euery meale do eate and drinke of the best & fairest? But what life is more loathsome▪ & what state more miserable then theirs who are driuen continually to vse those exercises for phisicke, without which the heart would be oppressed with fittes of feares, and wast away with the consumption of the spirits.