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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.
Verse 1. Better is a morsel of dry bread, and peace therewith, than a house full of Sacrifices with strife.
Verse 1. Better is a morsell of drie bread, and peace therewith, than a house full of Sacrifices with strife.
Better] More comfortable, safe, and wholesome, [is a morsel of dry bread] a crust (as we use to say) without any other cates or dishes, slender fare, a small pittance, and that also course and homely, [and peace therewith] if there be Christian love, quietness, and good agreement, [than an house full of Sacrifices] great abundance of dainty cheer, as they used to have when they offered peace offerings, as may appear Chap. 7. verse 14. And to that custom S. James seemeth to allude, when he saith, You have nourished 1your hearts as in a day of sacrifice or slaughter. See Cha. 15. v. 17.
BEtter] More comfortable, safe, and wholesome, [is a morsell of drie bread] a crust (as wee vse to say) without any other cates or dishes, slender fare, a small pittance, and that also course and homely, [and peace therewith] if there be Christian loue, quietnesse, and good agreement, [than an house full of Sacrifices] great abundance of daintie cheere, as they vsed to haue when they offered peace offerings, as may appeare Chap. 7. verse 14. And to that custome S. Iames seemeth to allude, when hee saith, You haue nourished 1your hearts as in a day of sacrifice or slaughter. See Cha. 15. v. 17.