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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. That way which the world taketh to be best to provide for themselves and theirs, turneth to be most hurtful unto them.
Doct. That way which the world taketh to be best to prouide for themselues and theirs, turneth to be most hurtful vnto them.
The love of their family is their pretext of loving wealth so well, and thereby they annoy their family as much as an enemy could. Great store of riches, they trust, will make them live, and live like men in great credit and honour: and therefore their trust in riches doth turn to their death: they shall die like beasts with shame and reproach. Who is ignorant of the woeful success which Achan found in coveting unlawfully the gold and silver at Jericho? He hoped to get more there than any man in Israel: but no man in Israel lost so much there as he: for himself, his gold and silver, his sons 1and daughters, his Oxen and Asses, his sheep and Tent, and all that he had, were destroyed. So Habakkuk upbraideth the King of Babel with coveting an evil covetousness to his house: for seeking 2to set his house on high, he had consulted shame to his house, and sinned against his own soul.
The loue of their family is their pretext of louing wealth so well, and thereby they annoy their family as much as an enemie could. Great store of riches, they trust, will make them liue, and liue like men in great credit and honour: and therfore their trust in riches doth turne to their death: they shall die like beasts with shame and reproach. Who is ignorant of the wofull successe which Achan found in coueting vnlawfully the gold and siluer at Iericho? Hee hoped to get more there than any man in Israel: but no man in Israel lost so much there as he: for himselfe, his gold and siluer, his sonnes 1and daughters, his Oxen and Asses, his sheepe and Tent, and all that he had, were destroied. So Habakkuk vpbraideth the King of Babel with coueting an euill couetousnesse to his house: for seeking