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A plain and familiar exposition of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth chapters of the…A plaine and familiar exposition of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth chapters of the…
A plain and familiar exposition of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth chapters of the Proverbs of Solomon / by John Dod and Robert Cleaver.A plaine and familiar exposition of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon / by Iohn Dod and Robert Cleaver.
London: printed for Roger Jackson, 1610London: printed for Roger Iackson, 1610
AN EXPOSITION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS. › Chapter 18
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Secondly, the guilt of sin is a most grievous ulcer for §2their hearts to feel, and an hideous object for their eyes to see, and yet it is always before them, and continually within them. No debt, though of millions, and to the cruellest creditor in all the world, is so dangerous, as deadly sin: no writ is so inevitable as the curses of Gods holy Law: and no arrest is so uncomfortable and irksome, as the biting accusations of the conscience.
Secondlie, the guilt of sinne is a most grieuous vlcer for §2their hearts to feele, and an hideous obiect for their eyes to see, and yet it is alwayes before them, and continually within them. No debt, though of millions, and to the cruellest creditor in all the world, is so dangerous, as deadly sinne: no writte is so ineuitable as the curses of Gods holie Law: and no arrest is so vncomfortable and irkesome, as the biting accusations of the conscience.
Thirdly, the continual peril of death, of hell, and condemnation, §3doth marvellously dismay them, in so much that life it self, which all living creatures ardently desire to retain, and all the delights and privileges thereof, are of no estimation and value with them: the violent dread of destruction, draweth them often, to seek their destruction with violence.
Thirdly, the continuall perill of death, of hell, and condemnation, §3doth maruellouslie dismay them, in so much that life it selfe, which all liuing creatures ardentlie desire to retaine, and all the delights and priuiledges thereof, are of no estimation and value with them: the violent dread of destruction, draweth them often, to seeke their destruction with violence.