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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.
This verse dependeth on the former, wherein was declared the property of fleshly men, which will despise their friends and neighbours in their necessity, and here is set down their state & condition which show such unfaithfulness, that he which doth despise his neighbour when he is poor and distressed, shall be a sinner, that is, shall be charged with sin, and convicted of it, and plagued for it. The same word is so taken in the book of Kings, where Bathsheba telleth David how needful it was for him to appoint his successor before his death. Else, saith he, when my Lord 1the King shall sleep with his father, I and my Son Solomon shall be sinners, that is, shall be counted as guilty persons, and punished as offenders. Now this is illustrated by the contrary, the great reward which they shall receive that pity poor men in their afflictions, and seek to relieve and succour them in word, deed, and countenance: they are pronounced blessed, such as shall abundantly partake of Gods favours and mercies.
THis verse dependeth on the former, wherin was declared the property of fleshly men, which will despise their friends and neighbors in their necessity, and here is set downe their state & condition which shew such vnfaithfulnes, that he which doth despise his neighbour when he is poore and distressed, shall be a sinner, that is, shall be charged with sinne, and conuicted of it, and plagued for it. The same word is so taken in the booke of Kings, where Bathsheba telleth Dauid how needefull it was for him to appoint his successor before his death. Else, saith he, when my Lord 1the King shall sleepe with his father, I and my Sonne Salomon shall be sinners, that is, shall be counted as guilty persons, and punished as offendors. Now this is illustrated by the contrary, the great reward which they shall receiue that pitty poore men in their afflictions, and seek to relieue and succour them in word, deed, and countenance: they are pronounced blessed, such as shall aboundantly partake of Gods fauours and mercies.
- 12. Kings, 1, 21.