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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.
The bread which in the wilderness fell daily from the clouds, was far more notable, then if the Israelites had manured the ground, and been provided for of corn, and inned an harvest. And the birth of Isaac, of John Baptist, of Samuel, and the Shunamites son, was far more honourable then if their mothers had been fertile, and apt to bear children. The handful of meal in the barrel, and the little oil in the cruse, which1 were long deked out to the poor widow of Sarepta, were more to be esteemed of, then all Jezebels plenty of victuals. And so was the oil that was multiplied to the poor prophets widow, for maintenance, and payment of her debts, then all2 Achabs treasures. And was not Hezekiah miraculous recovery better for him, then if he had never been sick, or to have been cured by Physicians? And the same might be said of the raising up of Lazarus, and Christ his healing many, of manifold3 maladies, in the Gospel.
The bread which in the wildernes fell daily from the cloudes, was farre more notable, then if the Israelites had manured the ground, and bene prouided for of corne, and inned an haruest. And the birth of Isaac, of Iohn Baptist, of Samuel, and the Shunamites sonne, was farre more honourable then if their mothers had bene fertile, and apt to beare children. The handfull of meale in the barrell, and the little oyle in the cruse, which1 were long deked out to the poore widowe of Sarepta, were more to be esteemed of, then all Iezabels plentie of victuals. And so was the oyle that was multiplied to the poore prophets widowe, for maintenance, and payment of her debts, then all2 Achabs treasures. And was not Hezechias miraculous recouerie better for him, then if he had neuer bene sicke, or to haue bene cured by Physitions? And the same might be said of the raising vp of Lazarus, and Christ his healing many, of manifold3 maladies, in the Gospell.