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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.
An other sort pursue their pleasures and delights so uncessantly, as if they were created for no other use, but to serve their recreations (for so they would have their masters called, although improperly) as hawking, hunting, quaffing, scoffing, dancing, dicing, carding, bowling, and all manner of unfruitful exercises, which are many more then we can recount, yet not one above the number of them for which they shall be plagued. Their hearts are oppressed with the love of sinful delights, which take authority upon them, and show tyranny to their souls.
An other sort pursue their pleasures and delights so vncessantly, as if they were created for no other vse, but to serue their recreations (for so they would haue their maisters called, although improperlie) as hawking, hunting, quaffing, scoffing, dauncing, dycing, carding, bowling, and all manner of vnfruitfull exercises, which are manie more then wee can recount, yet not one aboue the number of them for which they shalbe plagued. Their hearts are oppressed with the loue of sinfull delights, which take authoritie vpon them, and shewe tyrannie to their soules.
The case standeth with them for voluptuousness and pleasures, as it doth with drunkards, and such as have the dropsy, for wine and strong drink: they thirst continually after that which turneth to the bane of their brains, and whole bodies: nothing is so welcome unto them, as that which is most hurtful for them. Who use to bestow so much time in these idle actions, as they which have time little enough to bewail their abominable ways wherein they have walked, though many more years should be added to their lives, then they have any grant of?
The case standeth with them for voluptuousnes and pleasures, as it doth with drunkards, and such as haue the dropsie, for wine and strong drinke: they thirst continuallie after that which turneth to the bane of their braines, and whole bodies: nothing is so welcome vnto them, as that which is most hurtfull for them. Who vse to bestowe so much time in these idle actions, as they which haue time little enough to bewaile their abhominable wayes wherein they haue walked, though manie more yeares should be added to their liues, then they haue anie graunt of?