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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.
True it is, that all the godly attain not to this, because God having store and multiplicity of good things, doth otherwise render recompense to many: but every good man that doth obtain it, hath the promise of God performed unto him.
True it is, that all the godly attaine not to this, because God hauing store and multiplicitie of good things, doth otherwise render recompence to many: but euerie good man that doth obtaine it, hath the promise of God performed vnto him.
Secondly, they whose progeny is great, and posterity godly, have been serviceable to God, and profitable to Gods people, in this behalf, that they have begotten and brought up such as are like to grow so helpful and fruitful both to the Church and Country.
Secondly, they whose progenie is great, and posteritie godly, haue beene seruiceable to God, and profitable to Gods people, in this behalfe, that they haue begotten and brought vp such as are like to grow so helpfull and fruitfull both to the Church and Countrey.
Use. Reproof of those that rather groan at it as a burden, than take comfort in it as a benefit, to be parents of many children. They wish their ground to be fertile, and their cattle to be fruitful, but their wives to be barren, or to bear but a few. They are glad of their calves, of their colts, of their lambs, of their pigs; but grieved and vexed at their sons and daughters. And why? Because they think they are put to their finding, and depend not on God and his provision; whereas themselves, of themselves, are not able to provide one meal, or morsel, or crumb for themselves; much less for a family. And if the Lord do maintain them, will he not do as much for theirs, if they and theirs would become his? And is he able to feed a few, and insufficient to minister to many? Doth he keep open house for all the fowls of the air, for all the beasts of the earth, for all the worms