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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.
Verse 8. Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues without equity.
Verse 8. Better is a little with righteousnesse, than great reuenues without equitie.
Better] More comfortable and profitable [is a little] small substance or maintenance [with righteousness] when the man himself is just and godly, and his possessions are well gotten and used [than great revenues] either a large stock, and store of money, or any kind of riches, or lands, or pensions, or comings in, whatsoever, [without equity] which are unjustly come by, unrighteously kept, or unlawfully spent. See Chap. 12. verse 27. and 15. verse 16.
BEtter] More comfortable and profitable [is a little] small substance or maintenance [with righteousnesse] when the man himselfe is iust and godly, and his possessions are well gotten and vsed [than great reuenues] either a large stocke, and store of money, or any kinde of riches, or lands, or pensions, or commings in, whatsoeuer, [without equitie] which are vniustly come by, vnrighteously kept, or vnlawfully spent. See Chap. 12. verse 27. and 15. verse 16.