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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.
Doct. Nothing is more needful and profitable for the body, than grace is for the soul.
Doct. Nothing is more needfull and profitable for the body, than grace is for the soule.
He taketh his comparison from that which every man, besides many other creatures, hath necessary use of for preservation of life; and whereof the plants of the earth stand in need for growth and fruitfulness, and the ground it self for ⟨p. 91⟩moisture and fertility. By the same similitude the Lord Jesus doth commend and set forth the excellency of his grace and Gospel to the woman of Samaria, when he told her, that whosoever should drink of the water that he shall give him, shall never be more athirst: but the water that he shall give him, shall be in him a Well of water springing up into everlasting life. And not much unlike to this is that which he so solemnly proclaimed in a solemn assembly, and that in the last and great day of a solemn feast, saying, He that believeth in me, as saith the 1Scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of water of life.
He taketh his comparison from that which euery man, besides many other creatures, hath necessarie vse of for preseruation of life; and whereof the plants of the earth stand in need for growth and fruitfulnesse, and the ground it selfe for ⟨p. 91⟩moisture and fertilitie. By the same similitude the Lord Iesus doth commend and set foorth the excellencie of his grace and Gospell to the woman of Samaria, when he told her, that whosoeuer should drinke of the water that hee shall giue him, shall neuer be more athirst: but the water that he shall giue him, shall be in him a Well of water springing vp into euerlasting life. And not much vnlike to this is that which he so solemnly proclaimed in a solemne assemblie, and that in the last and great day of a solemne feast, saying, Hee that beleeueth in mee, as saith the