B12458:245
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.
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?
¶ Servants, &c. All sinners are bond-men, and every good Doct. 2 man is a Prince.
¶ Seruants, &c. All sinners are bond-men, and euerie good Doct. 2 man is a Prince.
No promotion can manumisse the former sort, or bring any freedom to them: for he calleth them servants still, though they be commanders: and no depression can debase the other, or take away their dignity from then: for he stileth them still by the name of Princes, though subject to servants.