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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
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.
When ye see ungodly and impious people waxing jocund, and merry, and their state appearing prosperous & fortunate, what else do you behold, but the plants of wild comfort, bearing leaves like to that which springeth from grace, but it wanteth the nature and virtue thereof. Or at best, it is but as corn growing upon the top of the house, which no wise man will reckon among his commodities, nor account an ornament to the place where it groweth: it was never sown by the hand of the Seeds-man, nor ever will be reaped by the sickle of the Harvest-man.
When ye see vngodlie and impious people waxing iocund, and merrie, and their state appearing prosperous & fortunate, what else doe you beholde, but the plants of wilde comfort, bearing leaues like to that which springeth from grace, but it wanteth the nature and vertue thereof. Or at best, it is but as corne growing vpon the toppe of the house, which no wise man will reckon among his commodities, nor account an ornament to the place where it groweth: it was neuer sowen by the hand of the Seedes-man, nor euer will be reapt by the sickle of the Haruest-man.
That rich glutton of whom Christ speaketh in the Gospel,1 had his estate embroidered, & garnished with all the ornaments of prosperity, both for goods, good cheer, fine clothing, and all pleasures that might serve for his contentment, if a sensual Epicure could possibly be contented, but it sat not handsomely on the fools back, nor was decent for such a misshapen caitiff, and therefore he was exceedingly disfigured thereby, and nothing beautified, and his uglesome deformity remaineth in the view and sight of all succeeding posterities.
That rich glutton of whome Christ speaketh in the Gospell,1 had his estate embroidered, & garnished with all the ornaments of prosperitie, both for goods, good cheare, fine cloathing, and all pleasures that might serue for his contentment, if a sensuall Epicure could possibly be contented, but it sat not handsomely on the fooles back, nor was decent for such a mishapen caitiffe, and therefore hee was exceedingly disfigured thereby, and nothing beautified, and his vglesome deformitie remaineth in the viewe and sight of all succeeding posterities.