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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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First, it is the nature of love, to make men industrious and painful to compass that which they covet for the satisfying of their wills, as appeareth by general experience.
First, it is the nature of loue, to make men industrious and painefull to compasse that which they couet for the satisfying of their wills, as appeareth by generall experience.
Secondly, they that be good, and delight in goodness, shall be assisted and directed by Gods holy spirit in godly proceedings: and they that be sinful and take pleasure in sin, shall be driven forwards, and prompted by the suggestions of Satan in mischievous practises. Use. 3
Secondly, they that be good, and delight in goodnes, shall be assisted and directed by Gods holie spirit in godly proceedings: and they that be sinfull and take pleasure in sinne, shall be driuen forwards, and prompted by the suggestions of Sathan in mischieuous practises. Vse. 3
Confutation of the colourable glosses whereby innumerable guileful professors illude their own souls, and deceive the opinion of others. They think themselves zealous for the truth, and desirous of salvation, but are idle, and take no pains to purchase grace: they are barren, and bring not forth the fruits of love: they are careless, and fly not from the baits of sin.
Confutation of the colourable glosses whereby innumerable guilefull professours illude their owne soules, and deceiue the opinion of others. They thinke themselues zealous for the truth, and desirous of saluation, but are idle, and take no paines to purchase grace: they are barren, and bring not forth the fruits of loue: they are carelesse, and flie not from the baites of sinne.