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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 26. It is not good even to condemn the righteous, nor to strike ingenuous men for equity.
Verse 26. It is not good euen to condemne the righteous, nor to strike ingenuous men for equitie.
IT is not good] but evil and hurtful [to condemn the righteous] to speak against or pass sentence upon harmless men with our lips; or so much as to censure them in our hearts: [nor to smite ingenuous men] to punish well disposed and faithful persons, whom the Scripture, in regard of the free spirit that is in them, whereby they are preserved from the power and bondage of sin, and in regard of the dignity that grace hath advanced them unto, doth call by the name ⟨p. 154⟩of free men and princes, as the word here used doth signify, [for equity] either for shunning that which is unlawful and naught, or doing that which is commendable and good.
IT is not good] but euill and hurtfull [to condemne the righteous] to speake against or passe sentence vpon harmelesse men with our lips; or so much as to censure them in our hearts: [nor to smite ingenuous men] to punish well disposed and faithfull persons, whom the Scripture, in regard of the free spirit that is in them, whereby they are preserued from the power and bondage of sinne, and in regard of the dignitie that grace hath aduanced them vnto, doth call by the name ⟨p. 154⟩of free men and princes, as the word heerevsed doth signifie, [for equitie] either for shunning that which is vnlawfull and naught, or doing that which is commendable and good.