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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.
In the book of Ecclesiastes he extendeth the comparison further than in this place, when he saith, Better is a poor and wise child, than an old and foolish King, which will no more be admonished. 1For out of the prison he cometh forth to reign, when as he that is borne in his Kingdom is made poor. Presidents on both sides, as well for the advancement of those that be virtuous, as for the dejection of them that fall to vicious courses, we have in one kindred, the inhabitants of one family, and sons also of one father, namely Jacobs. Reuben the eldest of all his children, for the great fault which he committed, was made younger brother, losing his birth-right, his dignity, and double portion, even from his posterity for many hundred years together. And Joseph contrarily, who exceeded all the rest in piety and goodness, did in like manner surmount them in authority and honour. He was raised from a servile condition, to an eminent estate; from the baseness of a prisoner, to the dignity of a Prince: he was made greater than his elder brethren, than his Lord and master, than the Kings principal Peers and Nobles, than any in the Land ⟨p. 113⟩of Egypt, (as being set over the Land of Egypt) next unto Pharaoh.
In the booke of Ecclesiastes hee extendeth the comparison further than in this place, when he saith, Better is a poore and wise childe, than an old and foolish King, which will no more be admonished. 1For out of the prison he commeth foorth to raigne, when as he that is borne in his Kingdome is made poore. Presidents on both sides, as well for the aduancement of those that be vertuous, as for the deiection of them that fall to vicious courses, we haue in one kindred, the inhabitants of one familie, and sonnes also of one father, namely Iacobs. Reuben the eldest of all his children, for the great fault which hee committed, was made yoonger brother, losing his birth-right, his dignitie, and double portion, euen from his posteritie for many hundred yeeres together. And Ioseph contrarily, who exceeded all the rest in pietie and goodnesse, did in like manner surmount them in authoritie and honour. He was raised from a seruile condition, to an eminent estate; from the basenesse of a prisoner, to the dignitie of a Prince: he was made greater than his elder brethren, than his Lord and master, than the Kings principall Peeres and Nobles, than any in the Land