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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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Instruction to price the peace of a good conscience at an Use. higher rate then all bodily blessings, and earthly commodities, as health, wealth, wit, reputation, authority, dignity, kind friends, prosperous children, and all other desirable gifts that are but temporary: if it have them joined with it, be thankful for these, but more for that: if it be bestowed alone without them, be content with that, and murmur not at the defect of these.
Instruction to price the peace of a good conscience at an Vse. higher rate then all bodilie blessings, and earthlie commodities, as health, wealth, wit, reputation, authoritie, dignitie, kinde friends, prosperous children, and all other desireable gifts that are but temporarie: if it haue them ioyned with it, be thankfull for these, but more for that: if it be bestowed alone without them, be content with that, and murmure not at the defect of these.
Secondly, beware how thou pierce thy soul with known and wilful transgressions, least thou make a wound therein, which in the end may prove unsufferablie painful, and uncurablie desperate. Which mischief, the better to prevent, let every man often examine his ways, and get pardon for his sins, and purging from them, before they exulcerate, and break forth into such pernicious maladies. And it is very needful to profit by, and make good use of more gentle and mild corrections, that every affliction bring us to some humiliation, by the finding out of our offences, and the unfeigned acknowledgement of them.
Secondly, beware how thou pearce thy soule with knowne and wilfull trangressions, least thou make a wound therein, which in the end may prooue vnsufferablie painefull, and vncurablie desperate. Which mischiefe, the better to preuent, let euerie man often examine his wayes, and get pardon for his sinnes, and purging from them, before they exulcerate, and breake forth into such pernicious malladies. And it is verie needfull to profite by, and make good vse of more gentle and milde corrections, that euerie affliction bring vs to some humiliation, by the finding out of our offences, and the vnfained acknowledgement of them.