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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.
Reason 1 First, God taketh the matter in hand for the wronged, and repayeth the wrong-doers according to their own measure wherewith they mete to others, as appeareth by the former testimonies and examples.
Reason 1 First, God taketh the matter in hand for the wronged, and repaieth the wrong-doers according to their owne measure wherewith they mete to others, as appeareth by the former testimonies and examples.
Secondly, an unquiet and contentious person doth commonly make himself hateful and odious to the people, and so that befalleth him which was spoken concerning Ismael, His hand shall be against every man, & every mans hand against him.1
Secondly, an vnquiet and contentious person doth commonly make himselfe hatefull and odious to the people, and so that befalleth him which was spoken concerning Ismael, His hand shalbe against euery man, & euery mans hand against him.1
Thirdly, their bodies usually are put to travel, by going or riding: their purses to charges, for fees or other expenses: their hearts to torment, with disappointments and repulses: for their success will not be answerable to their expectation and desire, as Haman found, to his discontentment, even whiles Mordecai was under him; but felt to his anguish and destruction when Mordecai was over him.