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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 17. The path of the righteous is to decline from evil: and he keepeth his soul that keepeth his way.
Verse 17. The path of the righteous is to decline from euill: and he keepeth his soule that keepeth his way.
THE path of the righteous] The wonted and most constant conversation of all good men, that which they most desire and endeavour, [is to decline from evil] to abstain from sin and iniquity, and all that may allure thereunto: and contrariwise to perform, as far as in them lieth, every Christian duty that is required at their hands: [and he keepeth his soul] he preserveth himself, both soul and body, from destruction, and all kind of plagues, [that keepeth his way] which ordereth his life aright, and walketh uprightly in obedience to Gods holy Commandments.
THE path of the righteous] The wonted and most constant conuersation of all good men, that which they most desire and endeuour, [is to decline from euill] to abstaine from sinne and iniquitie, and all that may allure thereunto: and contrariwise to performe, as farre as in them lieth, euery Christian dutie that is required at their hands: [and he keepeth his soule] he preserueth himselfe, both soule and body, from destruction, and all kinde of plagues, [that keepeth his way] which ordereth his life aright, and walketh vprightly in obedience to Gods holy Commandements.
Doct. Though godly men do sometimes slip into sins, yet they haunt them not, nor walk in them.