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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 here also are to be reprehended such as have their pens ready to write in the behalf of any bad person, to procure him release, and as it were to rescue him from the righteous hand and strokes of the Officer.
And heere also are to bee reprehended such as haue their pennes ready to write in the behalfe of any bad person, to procure him release, and as it were to rescue him from the righteous hand and strokes of the Officer.
Neither are those forward compurgators to be passed by without rebuke, who are prest and swift to adventure their word, yea their oath, and so their souls and salvation, in commendation of any that will entreat them, though never so lewd and licentious. When they are persuaded, and often when they know that he sweareth falsely, and is culpable of the fact whereof he is accused, yet they say, and swear, and publicly protest to God and men, that they think him to be honest, and his oath to be true. And what shall we say of flatterers? Do not they palpably justify the wicked? And do not they, and every one that magnifieth the ungodly, give cause of suspicion, that they also little dislike of ungodliness? For it is said, that they which forsake the Law, praise 1the wicked: but they that keep the Law, set themselves against them.
Neither are those forward compurgators to bee passed by without rebuke, who are prest and swift to aduenture their word, yea their oath, and so their soules and saluation, in commendation of any that will intreat them, though neuer so leaud and licentious. When they are perswaded, and often when they know that hee sweareth falsly, and is culpable of the fact whereof he is accused, yet they say, and sweare, and publikely protest to God and men, that they thinke him to be honest, and his oath to be true. And what shall we say of flatterers? Doe not they palpably iustifie the wicked? And doe not they, and euery one that magnifieth the vngodly, giue cause of suspicion, that they also little dislike of vngodlinesse? For it is said, that they which forsake the Law, praise