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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.
He that keepeth the commandment] which in the integrity, and uprightness of his heart, observeth the law of the Lord, to walk in the same, although he cannot fulfil it, breaking it as little as he can, though he cannot obey it so fully as he would, & is humbled for his faults, when he seeth his sins, & transgressions, keepeth his soul, himself, a part being put for the whole, he preserveth the life both of his soul and body, from an untimely death, & eternal destruction, not by the merit of his obedience, ⟨p. 68⟩but by the mercy of God, that rewardeth him for it: But he that despiseth his ways, maketh no account how, or after what sort he doth live, nor hath care to be directed by the prescript rule of the holy word of God, shall die, shall certainly perish, and be destroyed for ever, at the last, though peradventure he be spared for a season.
HEe that keepeth the commandement] which in the integritie, and vprightnes of his heart, obserueth the law of the Lord, to walk in the same, althogh he cannot fulfill it, beaking it as little as he can, thogh he cannot obey it so fully as he would, & is hūbled for his faults, whē he seeth his sins, & trāsgressions, keepeth his soule, himselfe, a part being put for the whole, he preserueth the life both of his soule and bodie, from an vntimely death, & eternal destruction, not by the merit of his obedience, ⟨p. 68⟩but by the mercie of God, that rewardeth him for it: But he that despiseth his wayes, maketh no account how, or after what sort hee doth liue, nor hath care to be directed by the prescript rule of the holie word of God, shall die, shall certainely perish, and be destroyed for euer, at the last, though peraduenture he be spared for a season.
Thus standeth the opposition: He that keepeth the commandment, and regardeth his ways shall live: but he that breaketh the commandment, and despiseth his ways, shall die.