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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.
Reason 1 First, the more bountiful God hath been to them, the more thankful they ought to be to him; and as he hath increased their wages, they should also mend their work: large pay doth duly challenge large pains: and therefore contrariwise their great offences must needs deserve the greater punishment.
Reason 1 First, the more bountifull God hath beene to them, the more thankfull they ought to be to him; and as he hath increased their wages, they should also mend their worke: large pay doth duly challenge large paines: and therefore contrariwise their great offenses must needs deserue the greater punishment.
The Lord was wont to ebbraid great personages, when they committed great transgressions, with the high places he had advanced them unto, as Saul, and Jeroboam, and Eli, though better than they, and David himself, though best of them all.
The Lord was wont to ebbraid great personages, when they committed great transgressions, with the high places he had aduanced them vnto, as Saul, and Ieroboam, and Eli, though better than they, and Dauid himselfe, though best of them all.
Secondly, their sins are very pernicious and pestilent: they bring evil into request, that men by their example will practise it for credit sake. When Jeroboam is mentioned, he is usually described by this, that he made Israel to sin.
Secondly, their sinnes are very pernicious and pestilent: they bring euill into request, that men by their example will practise it for credit sake. When Ieroboam is mentioned, hee is vsually described by this, that he made Israel to sinne.