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A plain and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the…A plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the…
A plain and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by Thomas Haveland for Thomas Man, 1609London: printed by Thomas Haueland for Thomas Man, 1609
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.
Verse 15. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that hath a good heart [is at] a continual feast.
Verse 15. All the daies of the afflicted are euill: but hee that hath a good heart [is at] a continuall feast.
BY the next two verses following it may appear, that by the afflicted is meant such a one as (through defect of faith and contentedness) is troubled in mind for poverty, or other outward calamities, because his worldly estate and condition is no better. And of him it is said, that all his days are evil: that is, His whole life, during those wants, or crosses, or fears, till the heart be holpen by grace [are evil] grievous, tedious, and full of bitter vexations: [but he that hath a good heart] which is at peace with God, and freed from ⟨p. 18⟩the power of infidelity and sinfulness: [is at a continual feast] is no more burdened with want at any time, than they which have variety of dishes before them: and no less filled with delights at all times, than they which are well satisfied with dainty meats and pleasant wines. For the comparison is from the comfort and commodities of banquets, and not the surfeits and excess thereof. Yet this is according to the degrees of that goodness which is in mens souls: so much godliness as they have, so much refreshing they find in their afflictions: and because none can attain unto a perfection thereof, therefore none shall be rid of all worldly griefs, and dreads, and discontentments.
BY the next two verses following it may appeare, that by the afflicted is meant such a one as (through defect of faith and contentednesse) is troubled in minde for pouertie, or other outward calamities, because his worldly estate and condition is no better. And of him it is said, that all his daies are euill: that is, His whole life, during those wants, or crosses, or feares, till the heart be holpen by grace [are euil] grieuous, tedious, and full of bitter vexations: [but hee that hath a good heart] which is at peace with God, and freed from ⟨p. 18⟩