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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 wise in heart] He which is godly wise, and wise to salvation, who hath knowledge and sincerity mixed together in his soul, [shall be called prudent] shall show himself, be known, and justly commended, to be a judicious and discreet person, both in the mouths of godly men, and in the consciences of wicked men, and by good effects at last in the sight of all men: [and the sweetness of the lips shall increase knowledge] The former part of the sentence declareth what ⟨p. 88⟩good the wise do get by wisdom; that they attain to the virtue and praise of prudence: and in this latter, what good they do by the same to others, which is specified only in their words, in their well-seasoned and comfortable speeches, called the sweetness of the lips, that thereby groweth [increase of doctrine] to every attentive and diligent hearer, both for admonition, instruction, consolation, and every other use, as opportunity serveth.
THE wise in heart] Hee which is godly wise, and wise to saluation, who hath knowledge and sinceritie mixed together in his soule, [shall be called prudent] shall shew himselfe, be knowen, and iustly commended, to bee a iudicious and discreet person, both in the mouthes of godly men, and in the consciences of wicked men, and by good effects at last in the sight of all men: [and the sweetnesse of the lips shal increase knowledge] The former part of the sentence declareth what ⟨p. 88⟩good the wise doe get by wisdome; that they attaine to the vertue and praise of prudence: and in this latter, what good they doe by the same to others, which is specified onely in their words, in their wel-seasoned and comfortable speeches, called the sweetnesse of the lips, that therby groweth [increase of doctrine] to euery attentiue and diligent hearer, both for admonition, instruction, consolation, and euery other vse, as opportunitie serueth.
Doct. Sound Religion, and piety in the soul, will make men circumspect, and prosperous in their ways.