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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.
Reason 1 First, holy things are thereby profaned: they take the glorious name of the Lord in vain, and so violate his Commandment.
Reason 1 First, holy things are thereby prophaned: they take the glorious name of the Lord in vaine, and so violate his Commandement.
Secondly, they do much harm by that manner of jangling, according to the Proverb: As a thorn standing up in 1the hand of a drunkard, so a parable in the mouth of fools. They grieve the godly: they put back the weak: they make good conference less regarded: they harden their own hearts: they puff up themselves with pride: they pass sentence against their own souls: they cause Religion and the name of God to be blasphemed.
Secondly, they doe much harme by that manner of iangling, according to the Prouerbe: As a thorne standing vp in 1the hand of a drunkard, so a parable in the mouth of fooles. They grieue the godly: they put back the weake: they make good conference lesse regarded: they harden their owne hearts: they puffe vp themselues with pride: they passe sentence against their owne soules: they cause Religion and the name of God to be blasphemed.
- 1Proverb. 26. 9.Prouerb. 26. 9.
Use 1 Instruction, to purge our selves at all times, before we take the name or word of God in our lips. Let us labour to be clean, that our prayers may be clean; that our praises may be clean; that our profession may be unblameable; that our rebukes, our exhortations, our consolations, and all our conferences, may be comely, acceptable, and effectual.