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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 that we never deal with a lot, but upon just Use. cause, when need so requireth, and in due manner, as is seemly, ⟨p. 24⟩and fit for the exercise thereof. Beware that it be not frivolously perverted to sports and trifles, and especially to do wrong and injury, as the soldiers did to win Christ his vesture, and Haman, in seeking thereby a lucky time to destroy all the Jews. And whosoever upon serious and weighty affairs shall be lawfully occasioned to use it, let them commit the success to the providence of God, by prayer, and submit themselves to his determination, with contentment. It was found by lot, that Acham by transgressing the commandment1 of God, concerning the execrable, and consecrated things, had deserved to die, and was accordingly to be punished with death: he nothing gainsaid the testimony of God therein, but yielded himself to be an offender, and to suffer the punishment that his offence demerited.
Instruction that we neuer deale with a lot, but vpon iust Vse. cause, when need so requireth, and in due manner, as is seemely, ⟨p. 24⟩and fit for the exercise thereof. Beware that it be not friuolously peruerted to sports and trifles, and especially to doe wrong and iniurie, as the souldiours did to winne Christ his vesture, and Haman, in seeking thereby a luckie time to destroy all the Iewes. And whosoeuer vpon serious and weightie affaires shalbe lawfully occasioned to vse it, let them commit the successe to the prouidence of God, by praier, and submit themselues to his determination, with contentment. It was found by lot, that Acham by transgressing the commandement1 of God, concerning the execrable, and consecrated things, had deserued to die, and was accordingly to be punished with death: he nothing gainesaied the testimonie of God therein, but yeelded himselfe to be an offendour, and to suffer the punishment that his offence demerited.