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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
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IN the former sentence, by a lively similitude, he showed how noisome a bad wife is, and in this by an other argument, he maketh it appear what a great benefit a good wife is. He Proveth it from the efficient, that the Lord doth bestow ⟨p. 62⟩her, and that in manner differing from his ordinary and common giftures. Houses, and lands are his gifts also, and so are riches, and all sorts of commodities, but they are ordinarily, commonly, and mediately received from ancestors, as fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers, to whom the Lord hath given power to get, and keep goods, and a will to leave them from hand to hand to their posterity. But a prudent wife, a godly, wise, and virtuous wife, and in like manner, a religious, discreet, and gracious husband, is from the Lord, made such a one by his grace, and joined to the yoke-fellow.
IN the former sentence, by a liuely similitude, he shewed how noysome a bad wife is, and in this by an other argument, he maketh it appeare what a great benefit a good wife is. He Prooueth it from the efficient, that the Lord doth bestowe ⟨p. 62⟩her, and that in manner differing from his ordinarie and common giftures. Houses, and lands are his gifts also, and so are riches, and all sorts of commodities, but they are ordinarily, commonly, and mediately receiued from ancestors, as fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers, to whom the Lord hath giuen power to get, and keepe goods, and a will to leaue them from hand to hand to their posteritie. But a prudent wife, a godly, wise, and vertuous wife, and in like manner, a religious, discreet, and gracious husband, is from the Lord, made such a one by his grace, and ioyned to the yoke-fellow.
House and riches, &c. No man can possibly have possession• Doct. 1 of equal value with a good yoke-fellow.