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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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¶ The more nearly men are knit together, the more grievous Doct. the breach is, when fares do grow between them.
¶ The more neerly men are knit together, the more grieuous Doct. the breach is, when farres doe growe betweene them.
Their friendship not so much seams-ripped, as torn in the whole cloth: the sinews of their love are cut in sunder, rather then the skin of it broken.
Their friendship not so much seames-ript, as torne in the whole cloth: the sinewes of their loue are cut in sunder, rather then the skinne of it broken.
Examples we have hereof, of those that have bin wicked on both sides, as Abimelech, and the Sh•••om•••• Ish•osheth, and Abner: Ahasuerus, and Vash•• first, & Haman afterwards: and so in like manner of Absalom and Amnon. Experience also may be seen, in such as have been united with the bands of nature, and disjoined by the difference of religions, though peradventure they may both make profession of the same, the one in fraud, the other in faithfulness: Such were Cain and Abel, Esau, and Jacob: Jacobs elder sons before their conversion, and Joseph.
Examples we haue hereof, of those that haue bin wicked on both sides, as Abimelech, and the Sh•••om•••• Ishosheth, and Abner: Ahashuerus, and Vash first, & Haman afterwards: and so in like manner of Abshalom and Amnon. Experience also may be seene, in such as haue bene vnited with the bands of nature, and disioyned by the difference of religions, though peraduenture they may both make profession of the same, the one in fraude, the other in faithfulnes: Such were Caine and Abell, Esau, and Iacob: Iacobs elder sonnes before their conuersion, and Ioseph.