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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.
And it was no small contentment to the Priests and Council, to hear matter objected against Steven, though they 1knew the informers to be false fellows, that were suborned to bear false witness against him.
And it was no small contentment to the Priests and Councell, to heare matter obiected against Steuen, though they 1knew the informers to bee false fellowes, that were subborned to beare false witnesse against him.
Reasons. 1 First, all their members and senses are servants to sin, and used as weapons of unrighteousness: and therefore if one be bad, another cannot be good: if the tongue be slanderous, the care will be graceless.
Reasons. 1 First, all their members and senses are seruants to sinne, and vsed as weapons of vnrighteousnesse: and therefore if one be bad, another cannot be good: if the tongue bee slanderous, the care will be gracelesse.
Secondly, they love lies, and therefore how can they but hearken to them that make lies, sithence they prepare for their appetite, and as it were dress such meats as are toothsome unto them?
Secondly, they loue lies, and therefore how can they but hearken to them that make lies, sithence they prepare for their appetite, and as it were dresse such meats as are toothsome vnto them?