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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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Vers. 24. A man that hath friends, ought to show himself friendly, for a friend is nearer then a brother.
Vers. 24. A man that hath friends, ought to shew himselfe friendly, for a friend is nearer then a brother.
A Man that hath friends] which is beloved of, and receiveth favours and benefits from others, ought to show himself friendly, to entertain, hold, and requite their friendship by all good duties. He is not only to take heed least by any strangeness, and offering of discourtesies, he lose their likings, but to endeavour by all signs and pledges of good will, to knit their hearts faster and faster unto him. For a friend, an unfeigned ⟨p. 31⟩well-willer, which beareth Christian affection unto him whom he loveth, is nearer then a brother, is more faithful and constant in ministering help and comfort, then an ordinary kinsman, or mere natural brother.
A Man that hath friends] which is beloued of, and receiueth fauours and benefites from others, ought to shewe himselfe friendly, to entertaine, hold, and requite their friendship by all good duties. He is not onely to take heede least by any strangenes, and offering of discourtesies, he lose their likings, but to indeuour by all signes and pledges of good will, to knit their hearts faster and faster vnto him. For a friend, an vnfained ⟨p. 31⟩wel-willer, which beareth Christian affection vnto him whom he loueth, is nearer then a brother, is more faithfull and constant in ministring helpe and comfort, then an ordinarie kinsman, or meere naturall brother.