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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.
Whatsoever good is done to godly men afflicted, is accepted Doct. of God, as done to himself.
Whatsoeuer good is done to godly men afflicted, is accepted Doct. of God, as done to himselfe.
So far is he from casting off, and disclaiming his people in their poverty, and tribulations, as that at no other time in this life, he doth more professedly acknowledge them, and publish the tenderness of his affection towards them. As what greater testimony can there be of love and kindness, then this, that their enemies be his enemies: their friends his friends: their benefactors so graced and esteemed of, as if they were become his creditors. We have seen in some other place before, that he which oppresseth the poor, reproacheth him that made him, but he 1honoureth him that hath mercy on the poor.
So farre is he from casting off, and disclaiming his people in their pouertie, and tribulations, as that at no other time in this life, he doth more professedly acknowledge them, and publish the tendernes of his affection towards them. As what greater testimonie can there be of loue and kindnes, then this, that their enemies be his enemies: their friends his friends: their benefactors so graced and esteemed of, as if they were become his creditors. We haue seene in some other place before, that he which oppresseth the poore, reprocheth him that made him, but he 1honoureth him that hath mercie on the poore.