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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 15. In the light of the Kings countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
Verse 15. In the light of the Kings countenance is life; and his fauour is as a cloud of the latter raine.
THE meaning of this sentence is, that where the King and great personages do affect, and make manifest their love, there is joy, and credit, and protection, and preferment, and all such prosperity as man may be a means of: ⟨p. 76⟩for so much the word [life] doth import: and the same is amplified by the two similitudes of lightsome and comfortable sun-shine, and of fruitful and profitable showers; especially those which they called the latter rain, whereby the ground was refreshed after the drought, and the corn was ripened before the harvest. And yet are not all promiscuously, without difference, in so happy an estate when superiors do set by them, unless the Lord do also grace them: for mans friendship can never do good unto Gods enemies, as may appear by the condition of Doeg, and of the noble man, upon whom the King of Israel leaned; and of the Priests of Baal, whom 1Jezebel maintained; and of the false Prophets, whom Ahab respected.
THE meaning of this sentence is, that where the King and great personages doe affect, and make manifest their loue, there is ioy, and credit, and protection, and preferment, and all such prosperitie as man may be a meanes of: ⟨p. 76⟩