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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 may be a motive to put princes and great potentates Use. 1 in mind not only themselves to exercise lenity and mildness towards their subjects, but likewise as good pastors to preserve their people from the cruelty and violence of others. For if they suffer foxes, and wolves, and wild beasts, and worry-sheep to make havoc of their flocks at their pleasure, it cannot be but that a divination of them will follow upon it, and hurt to their own state by the paucity of their people. That made Job so pitiful ⟨p. 130⟩to the poor oppressed, and so severe to the violent oppressors: and therefore came so great a blessing on Jobs government, & so great comfort to his heart, and so great prosperity to his estate, and so great honour to his estate, and so great reverence to his person, and so great honour to his name, and so great blessedness to his soul and body for ever. I was, saith he, a father unto the 1poor, & when I knew not the cause, I sought it out diligently. I brake the jaws of the unrighteous man, and pluck•e the pray out of his teeth. Neither doth the Scripture purpose the example of Job only for magistrates to imitate, although it may well beseem them all to tread in his steps, but Jobs better and master, even Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords, and king of kings, is set forth for a pattern for Solomon himself, and every other good ruler to follow, He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children 2of the needy, and subdue the oppressor. And therefore in his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace shall be so long as the moon endureth.
This may be a motiue to put princes and greate potentates Vse. 1 in minde not onelie themselues to exercise lenity and mildnesse towards theire subiects, but likewise as good pastors to preserue their people from the cruelty and violence of others. For if they suffer foxes, and wolues, and wild beastes, and woory-sheepes to make hauock of their flockes at their pleasure, it cannot bee but that a diuination of them will follow vpon it, and hurte to their owne state by the paucity of their people. That made Iob so pittifull ⟨p. 130⟩