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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
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Reason 1 First, kindness and friendship to them that are ingenuously disposed, doth more and longer refresh their hearts, than any food, though never so sweet and pleasant; especially coming from him, or in the company of them, whom he knoweth to be hardly affected towards him.
Reason 1 First, kindnesse and friendship to them that are ingenuously disposed, doth more and longer refresh their hearts, than any food, though neuer so sweet and pleasant; especially comming from him, or in the companie of them, whom he knoweth to be hardly affected towards him.
Secondly, where is store of meat, and want of good will, there must needs be either lumpishness, or wrangling, or dissimulation among them that sit together: and often thence spring the beginnings of suits and contentions, and of quarrels and murders; yea sometimes they are purposely aimed at in the same, as Saul intended on an holy days feast to kill David; and Absalom made a sheep-shearing banquet to dispatch Amnon. Now where love is, there every one is cheerful to other, and edifieth others, and beareth with others, and dealeth faithfully with others: and so that which is wanting in their commons, is fully supplied in their fruitful conference.
Secondly, where is store of meat, and want of good will, there must needs be either lumpishnesse, or wrangling, or dissimulation among them that sit together: and often thence spring the beginnings of suits and contentions, and of quarrels and murders; yea sometimes they are purposely aimed at in the same, as Saul intended on an holy daies feast to kill Dauid; and Absolon made a sheepe-shearing banquet to dispatch Amnon. Now where loue is, there euery one is cheerefull to other, and edifieth others, and beareth with others, and dealeth faithfully with others: and so that which is wanting in their commons, is fully supplied in their fruitfull conference.