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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.
Reasons. 1 First, all the corruption that is in mans nature, and the sinfulness that is in his heart, do gather unto it, and there break out, whereby it becometh so fierce and violent.
Reasons. 1 First, all the corruption that is in mans nature, and the sinfulnes that is in his heart, doe gather vnto it, and there breake out, whereby it becommeth so fierce and violent.
Secondly, the Devil himself hath the rule and managing of it, and he putteth force into it, beside the venom that it hath in it self. He fireth that matter that he findeth there, and addeth to the same fuel of his own, to feed the flame thereof. Behold (saith S. James) how great a thing a little fire 1kindleth. And the tongue is fire even a world of wickedness: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of Hell, that is to say, by Satan that hellish spirit.
Secondly, the Diuell himselfe hath the rule and managing of it, and hee putteth force into it, beside the venome that it hath in it selfe. Hee fireth that matter that hee findeth there, and addeth to the same fuell of his owne, to feed the flame thereof. Behold (saith S. Iames) how great a thing a little fire 1kindleth. And the tongue is fire euen a world of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole bodie, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of Hell, that is to say, by Satan that hellish spirit.