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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.
Doct. Fumish and froward men are always troublesome and turbulent persons. They commonly bring with them fire and fuel, and bellows to make combustions and stirs wheresoever they come. The same words of this text are repeated again in another place, where it is said, that an angry man 1stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Doct. Fumish and froward men are alwaies troublesome and turbulent persons. They commonly bring with them fire and fuell, and bellowes to make combustions and stirres wheresoeuer they come. The same words of this text are repeated againe in another place, where it is said, that an angrie man 1stirreth vp strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
- 1Prover. 29. 22.Prouer. 29. 22.
Reasons. First, pride worketh very strongly in them; and only by pride do men make contentions. They think the wrongs 1that seem to be offered unto them, are too many; and the duties that are performed, too few; and the regard that is had of them, too little; and nothing is enough to satisfy their desires; and therefore nothing will serve their turns to keep them from brawling.
Reasons. First, pride worketh very strongly in them; and onely by pride doe men make contentions. They thinke the wrongs 1that seeme to be offered vnto them, are too many; and the duties that are performed, too few; and the regard that is had of them, too little; and nothing is enough to satisfie their desires; and therefore nothing will serue their turnes to keepe them from brawling.