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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS. › Chapter 13
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.
Neither is it an easy matter to keep them in, unless a continual and serious care be had thereof. There are no malefactors more ready to break out of prison, nor waters to flow out of fountains, then lewd, or foolish, or fruitless words are to proceed out of mens mouths. How quickly shall the best forget themselves in their talk, if they be not very vigilant, and wary? How many unfit, at least frivolous, and idle speeches will steal away, and slip from them, if they give any passage unto them without examination of their purpose and business? The Prophet Isaiah was in good earnest, and spake as he found, and felt, when he said, that he was a man of polluted lips, and dwelt in the middest of 1a people of polluted lips. Saint James was well advised, and knew what he writ, and had the Holy ghost to warrant him, when he calleth the tongue An unruly evil, more untameable then the wild beasts, or any other living creature: and if it were not2 well looked too, Hell, the Devil, that hellish fiend, would fire it, and it would set the whole course of nature on fire.
Neither is it an easie matter to keepe them in, vnlesse a continuall and serious care be had thereof. There are no malefactors more ready to breake out of prison, nor waters to flowe out of fountaines, then lewd, or foolish, or fruitlesse words are to proceed out of mens mouthes. How quickly shall the best forgette themselues in their talke, if they be not very vigilant, and warie? How many vnfit, at least friuolous, and idle speeches will steale away, and slip from them, if they giue any passage vnto them without examination of their purpose and businesse? The Prophet Isaiah was in good earnest, and spake as he found, and felt, when he said, that he was a man of polluted lippes, and dwelt in the middest of 1a people of polluted lippes. Saint Iames was well aduised, and knew what he writ, and had the Holy ghost to warrant him, when hee calleth the tongue An vnrulie euill, more vntameable then the wilde beasts, or any other liuing creature: and if it were not2 well looked too, Hell, the Diuell, that hellish fiende, would fire it, and it woulde set the whole course of nature on fire.