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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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Doct. 1 The Lord is as well displeased with the sinful cogitations of the mind, as with the wicked actions of the body.
Doct. 1 The Lord is as well displeased with the sinfull cogitations of the minde, as with the wicked actions of the body.
His eye doth as evidently see what the heart doth think within, as what the hand doth work without: and the evil that is conceived in the heart is no better allowed than the sin which is practised by the hand. When he complaineth by the Prophet, of the grievous iniquities wherewith men laded themselves; how that their feet, their hands, their lips, their tongues, and all their members were prone and swift to work mischief, he inserteth this as a principal among the rest, that their thoughts were wicked thoughts. And 1when he concluded to destroy all the world (excepting Noah and his family) with water, and repented that he had made man in the earth, this is assigned as a cause hereof, that All the in aginations of the thoughts of mans heart were only evil continually.2
His eie doth as euidently see what the heart doth thinke within, as what the hand doth worke without: and the euill that is conceiued in the heart is no better allowed than the sinne which is practised by the hand. When he complaineth by the Prophet, of the grieuous iniquities wherewith men laded themselues; how that their feet, their hands, their lips, their tongues, and all their members were prone and swift to worke mischiefe, hee inserteth this as a principall among the rest, that their thoughts were wicked thoughts. And 1when he concluded to destroy all the world (excepting Noah and his familie) with water, and repented that hee had made man in the earth, this is assigned as a cause hereof, that All the in aginations of the thoughts of mans heart were only euill continually.