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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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First, wicked men that maintain evil causes, are shameless Reasons. 1 to speak lies, and divers that hear them, are ready to believe lies, until the truth do evidently refel them.
First, wicked men that maintaine euill causes, are shamelesse Reasons. 1 to speake lies, and diuers that heare them, are readie to beleeue lies, vntill the truth doe euidently refell them.
Secondly, God in his providence doth so dispose of it, that §2his people may be the better humbled: that they may be drawn to seek his help, and that his hand may be seen in their prosperous success at the last. Use.
Secondly, God in his prouidence doth so dispose of it, that §2his people may be the better humbled: that they may be drawne to seeke his helpe, and that his hand may be seene in their prosperous successe at the last. Vse.
Instruction to rulers and judges, and every one to whom authority is committed, to lend the ears aswell to the one side as the other, before they condemn or acquit either of them: and that they proceed as they find the matter confirmed or confuted by due proofs, and not as they hear it affirmed, or contradicted by bare words: for our proverb is as true as common: One tale is good, till an other be heard. And this may also admonish all men to take heed how they garnish bad causes with artificial colours, as vain women paint their withered faces to make them seem very fair and beautiful: the breath of truth will at the last blow upon them, whereby their hew shall be changed, that every one shall see their deformity, not by having a disfigured visage, but a dishonest behaviour. Though they thrive in their practises for a time, yet it is impossible for them to succeed well in their evil ways for ever: either their neighbours, one man or other, will lay open their falsehood and faultiness to the eyes of the world in the day of their conviction, or else the Lord will bring their lewdness to light, before men, and Angels, and all the world, at the day of judgement.