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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.
Secondly, it is contrary to love, mercy, and justice.
Secondly, it is contrarie to loue, mercie, and iustice.
Thirdly, it is a wrong offered unto the Lords people: for he is a Guardian and keeper of the righteous, and so much as he loveth them, he must needs loath their adversaries that injuriously condemn them.
Thirdly, it is a wrong offered vnto the Lords people: for hee is a Guardian and keeper of the righteous, and so much as he loueth them, he must needs loath their aduersaries that iniuriously condemne them.
Use 1 Terror for backbiters, and all those which are always and in every place, upon their benches and judgement seats, receiving verdicts, and passing sentences upon the behaviour and very hearts of innocent men. Either with lies and slanders they accuse them of things which they never committed, or else deprave those things which they faithfully performed. They carp at their wisest speeches, and quarrel at their justest actions, and find fault with their uprightest meanings, and so make their greatest graces carry an appearance of greatest corruptions. Such doth the Prophet threaten, when he saith, The cruel man shall cease, and the scornful shall be consumed, and all that hasted to iniquity shall be cut off: which made a man to sin in his word, and laid a snare in the gate for them that reproved them, and made the just to fall without a cause.
Vse 1 Terror for backebiters, and all those which are alwaies and in euery place, vpon their benches and iudgement seats, receiuing verdicts, and passing sentences vpon the behauiour and very hearts of innocent men. Either with lies and slanders they accuse them of things which they neuer committed, or else depraue those things which they faithfully performed. They carpe at their wisest speeches, and quarrell at their iustest actions, and finde fault with their vprightest meanings, and so make their greatest graces carry an appearance of greatest corruptions. Such doth the Prophet threaten, when he saith, The cruell man shall cease, and the scornfull shall be consumed, and all that hasted to iniquitie shall be cut off: which made a man to sinne in his word, and laid a snare in the gate for them that reprooued them, and made the iust to fall without a cause.