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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.
IN all labour,) in every honest vocation wherein a man shall diligently and faithfully employ himself, there is abundance, a ⟨p. 122⟩competent measure of provision to be found for his own maintenance, and a surplusage to bestow on other good uses. But the talk of the l•ppes only, bare and vain words, when a man will labour with his tongue, and let the rest of his members be idle: when the mouth shall be ready to discourse of his business, but the hands be negligent to perform it; when words alone shall be used in steed of works, that bringeth only want, filleth him with need and poverty.
IN all labour,) in euery honest vocation wherein a man shall diligently and faithfully imploy himselfe, there is abundance, a ⟨p. 122⟩competent measure of prouision to be found for his owne maintenance, and a surplussage to bestowe on other good vses. But the talke of the l•ppes onelie, bare and vaine words, when a man will labour with his tongue, and let the rest of his members bee idle: when the mouth shall bee ready to discourse of his busines, but the hands be negligent to perform it; when words alone shall be vsed in steed of workes, that bringeth onelie want, filleth him with neede and pouerty.
No mans thriving consisteth so much in the gainfulness of his Doct. trade, as in his faithfulness and diligence in it. Let the function be never so commodious and profitable, yet it will yield little benefit to them that are remiss and slothful therein: and let the work be never so mean and little set by, yet it will requite their travels with sufficiency that apply themselves constantly to be industrious in it. Many rich merchants fall, and grow to be bankrupts, and many poor servants rise, nd grow to be wealthy When it is said, Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord & walketh in his ways. In eating the labours of thine hands thou shalt be blessed, and it shall be well with thee. There is not a limitation,