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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.
THE eyes of the Lord] His certain sight and knowledge. He speaketh of God according to man, attributing eyes unto him, (which he, being a spirit, hath not) because we see with our eyes, and best know the things which we see. [in every place] wheresoever any man is: [behold] not only discern and perceive, but purposely observe and mark, and that continually, as the form of the word in that Participle importeth: [the evil and the good] all sorts of men, together with their hearts and ways.
THE eies of the Lord] His certaine sight and knowledge. He speaketh of God according to man, attributing eies vnto him, (which he, being a spirit, hath not) because we see with our eies, and best know the things which wee see. [in euery place] wheresoeuer any man is: [behold] not only discerne and perceiue, but purposely obserue and marke, and that continually, as the forme of the word in that Participle importeth: [the euill and the good] all sorts of men, together with their hearts and waies.
Doct. All men are always in Gods presence: When they see not him, he eyeth and looketh on them, wheresoever they be, and howsoever occupied: as David saith, not concerning himself only, but every man else in the same manner: Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: Thou understandest my thought 1afar off: Thou compassest my paths and my lying down, and art accustomed to all my ways.
Doct. All men are alwaies in Gods presence: When they see not him, he eieth and looketh on them, wheresoeuer they bee, and howsoeuer occupied: as Dauid saith, not concerning himselfe only, but euery man else in the same manner: Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: Thou vnderstandest my thought 1afarre off: Thou compassest my paths and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my waies.