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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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Verse 21. Foolishness is joy to him that is destitute of understanding: but a man of understanding will walk uprightly.
Verse 21. Foolishnesse is ioy to him that is destitute of vnderstanding: but a man of vnderstanding will walke vprightly.
FOOLISHNESS] Wickedness and sin: [is joy] desired, and committed, and continued in with delight: [to him that is destitute of understanding a• • full man that is without all saving knowledge, and heavenly wisdom: [but a man of understanding] such a one as is godly wise, whose mind the Holy ⟨p. 26⟩Ghost hath enlightened with the sound knowledge of the word: [walketh uprightly] ordereth his conversation aright, and that in the truth and sincerity of his heart. Thus standeth the opposition: Foolishness is joy to him that is destitute of understanding, and therefore he walketh perversely: but wisdom is joy to him that is a man of understanding, and therefore he walketh uprightly. See chap. 10. verse 23.
FOOlishnesse] Wickednesse and sinne: [is ioy] desired, and committed, and continued in with delight: [to him that is destitute of vnderstanding a• • full man that is without all sauing knowledge, and heauenly wisdome: [but a man of vnderstanding] such a one as is godly wise, whose minde the Holy ⟨p. 26⟩Ghost hath enlightned with the sound knowledge of the word: [walketh vprightly] ordereth his conuersation aright, and that in the truth and sinceritie of his heart. Thus standeth the opposition: Foolishnesse is ioy to him that is destitute of vnderstanding, and therefore he walketh peruersly: but wisdome is ioy to him that is a man of vnderstanding, and therefore he walketh vprightly. See chap. 10. verse 23.