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So then, the hands of lazy persons are as it were bound with the love of ease, which they prefer before matters of profit and necessity; especially concerning the soul, and the spiritual food thereof, even the word of God; whereby only it is to be sustained.

So then, the hands of lazie persons are as it were bound with the loue of ease, which they preferre before matters of profite and necessitie; especiallie concerning the soule, and the spirituall foode thereof, euen the word of God; whereby ouely it is to be sustained.

Verse 25. Smite a scorner, that the foolish may beware: and reprove the prudent, and he will understand knowledge.

Verse 25. Smite a scorner, that the foolish may beware: and reprooue the prudent, and hee will vnderstand knowledge.

Smite,] either put to death, if thou be a magistrate of that authority, and the cause so require, or otherwise punish according to thy place, the scorner, a refractary person, him that contemneth and derideth all admonitions and instructions, one, of whom there is no hope of amendment: for a scorner is in the highest degree of transgression, that the foolish, ¹such as through simplicity and ignorance are carried forwards to evil, may beware, may be better brought to a sight of their faults, and the danger thereof, and penitently reform their ways.

SMite,] either put to death, if thou be a magistrate of that authoritie, and the cause so require, or otherwise punish according to thy place, the scorner, a refractary person, him that contemneth and derideth all admonitions and instructions, one, of whome there is no hope of amendment: for a scorner is in the highest degree of transgression, that the foolish,