B12458:218
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
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.
¶ It is a prerogative peculiar to the wise and godly, to be owners Doct. 1 of their own hearts.
¶ It is a prerogatiue peculiar to the wise and godlie, to be owners Doct. 1 of their owne hearts.
Fools and graceless persons are otherwise described, when they are said to have a price in their hand to get wisdom, but they 1lack an heart. And therefore also the Prophet likeneth them to Doves deceived, as being without an heart. Which sayings are2 not so meant, as if they wanted integral parts, or reasonable souls of men, but that they were devoid of grace & power, to use & govern the same, as much as the silly brutish creatures.
Fooles and graceles persons are otherwise described, when they are sayd to haue a price in their hand to get wisedome, but they 1lacke an heart. And therefore also the Prophet likeneth them to Doues deceiued, as being without an heart. Which sayings are2 not so meant, as if they wanted integrall partes, or reasonable soules of men, but that they were deuoyd of grace & power, to vse & gouerne the same, as much as the sillie bruitish creatures.