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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.
Verse 23. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of justice.
Verse 23. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosome to peruert the waies of iustice.
A Wicked man] Both the party that hath the bad cause, and standeth in it, and the unjust Judge, or other corrupt Officer, that will be induced to do wrong, [taketh a gift] which the one hath prepared to give, and the other knoweth to be brought, [out of the bosom] closely and privily, that others discern it not [to pervert the ways of justice] to overthrow the right, and stop the course of Law, wherein (as in broad and high ways) the Magistrate should walk without all partiality. The force of gifts and bribes hath already been declared, verse 8.
A Wicked man] Both the partie that hath the bad cause, and standeth in it, and the vniust Iudge, or other corrupt Officer, that will be induced to doe wrong, [taketh a gift] which the one hath prepared to giue, and the other knoweth to be brought, [out of the bosome] closely and priuily, that others discerne it not [to peruert the waies of iustice] to ouerthrow the right, and stop the course of Law, wherein (as in broad and high waies) the Magistrate should walke without all partialitie. The force of gifts and bribes hath alreadie beene declared, verse 8.