A20556:554
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 3. The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
Verse 3. The fining pot is for siluer, and the fornace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
THE fining pot for silver] Gold-smiths have their vessels, wherein they prove and try the gold and silver from dross and corruption: [but the Lord trieth the hearts] he alone searcheth them, and knoweth them; and none but he by grace can purify them, though man by art can refine metals, and make them more precious.
THE fining pot for siluer] Gold-smiths haue their vessels, wherein they prooue and trie the gold and siluer from drosse and corruption: [but the Lord trieth the hearts] he alone searcheth them, and knoweth them; and none but he by grace can purifie them, though man by art can refine metals, and make them more precious.
Doct. No skill, nor power, nor means of man, are sufficient to deal with the heart.
Doct. No skill, nor power, nor meanes of man, are sufficient to deale with the heart.