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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.
First, the one sort have faith, seeing God in his word & ways, Reasons. 1 and therefore tremble at his rebukes, and follow his direction: and the other are full of infidelity, looking only with a carnal eye, and therefore despise his threatenings, and contemn his counsels.
First, the one sort haue faith, seeing God in his word & waies, Reasons. 1 and therefore tremble at his rebukes, and follow his direction: and the other are full of infidelity, looking onely with a carnall eie, and therfore despise his threatnings, and contemne his counsels.
Secondly, the one sort are of an humble spirit, and that always §2maketh the heart tender and tractable: and the other of an high min•, and that maketh it hard and obstinate.
Secondly, the one sort are of an humble spirit, and that alwaies §2maketh the heart tender and tractable: and the other of an high min•, and that maketh it hard and obstinate.
Thirdly, the one sort are provident for themselves, and therefore do heedfully prevent all perils that may befall them: and the §3other negligent of their own safety, and therefore shun no mischief before they feel it. And so he saith in another Chapter: A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himself: but the foolish go 1