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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
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.
Reproof of them which invert this good and useful ordinance, Use. and make it serve for evil and hurtful purposes, as they do, that give themselves to carding and dyeing. Do they aim at this, that every one, as near as may be, shall have and hold his own? or do they not adventure every one the loss of his own unthriftily, to get an other mans, though it were his whole patrimony, without due consideration, unrighteously? Is this an even and equal, and indifferent form of making partition? And how well they be content to depart with that which the dice doth allot them to lose, and how much peace is spread among them, and how great contention• are pacified, may appear by their frownings, and frettings, when their full bags have emptied their stomachs into their fellows pockets, yea by their brawling, swearing, and cursing, and many times by their challenges, quarrels, and combats.
Reproofe of them which inuert this good and vsefull ordinance, Vse. and make it serue for euill and hurtfull purposes, as they doe, that giue themselues to carding and dyeing. Doe they ayme at this, that euery one, as neare as may be, shall haue and hold his owne? or doe they not aduenture euery one the losse of his owne vnthriftily, to get an other mans, though it were his whole patrimonie, without due consideration, vnrighteously? Is this an euen and equall, and indifferent forme of making partition? And how well they be content to depart with that which the dice doth allot them to lose, and how much peace is spred among them, and how great contention• are pacified, may appeare by their frownings, and frettings, when their full bagges haue emptied their stomacks into their fellowes pockets, yea by their brawling, swearing, and cursing, and many times by their challenges, quarrels, and combats.
Verse 19. A brother offended, is harder to win then a strong City: and their contentions are like the bar of a Palace.
Verse 19. A brother offended, is harder to winne then a strong Citie: and their contentions are like the barre of a Pallace.