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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
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Verse 15. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
Verse 15. He that iustifieth the wicked, and hee that condemneth the iust, euen they both are abomination to the Lord.
HE that justifieth the wicked] which either publicly or privately doth either warrant the unlawful actions of sinful men, or cleareth them of the practise of that whereof they are guilty, or freeth them from the punishments which their faults do justly require, [and he that condemneth the just] ⟨p. 142⟩imputing those things unto them for faults, which indeed are virtues, or not at all any offences, (as they did to the Disciples of Christ, for plucking, rubbing, and eating the ears of corn on the Sabbath day, which in that case might be done without sin) or laying those crimes to their charge whereof they are innocent and faultless: [they both are abomination to the Lord] the one as well as the other is loathed and disliked of him, and neither of them shall escape the judgements which are to be executed by him.
HE that iustifieth the wicked] which either publikely or priuately doth either warrant the vnlawfull actions of sinfull men, or cleereth them of the practise of that whereof they are guiltie, or freeth them from the punishments which their faults doe iustly require, [and he that condemneth the iust] ⟨p. 142⟩imputing those things vnto them for faults, which indeed are vertues, or not at all any offenses, (as they did to the Disciples of Christ, for plucking, rubbing, and eating the eares of corne on the Sabbath day, which in that case might bee done without sinne) or laying those crimes to their charge whereof they are innocent and faultlesse: [they both are abomination to the Lord] the one as well as the other is loathed and disliked of him, and neither of them shall escape the iudgements which are to be executed by him.