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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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Verse. 29. But judgements are prepared for these scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Verse. 29. But iudgements are prepared for these scorners, and stripes for the backe of fooles.
The behaviour of these contemptuous persons was declared in the former sentence, and their recompense followeth in this: for all their cunning and scorning speeches, ⟨p. 100⟩judgements, punishments, many, and of divers sorts: for the plural number noteth the multitude and variety of them: are prepared for scorners, not only appointed, but ready to be executed upon them, either by the magistrate, or else by the Lord himself, in this life, or in that which is to come, or in both. And stripes for the back of fools, sharp and severe plagues, resembled by the scourging of bondmen, are in a readiness both for the souls and bodies of these malicious and incorrigible fools, which shall not lightly be chastened, but grievously, and extremely tormented, to their destruction. For the1 preparation doth argue some exquisite torture, as fire prepared2 for the devil and his Angels: and Tophet prepared of old for that cursed king of Assur, &c.
THe behauiour of these contemptuous persons was declared in the former sentence, and their recompence followeth in this: for all their cunning and scorning speeches, ⟨p. 100⟩iudgements, punishments, many, and of diuers sorts: for the plurall number noteth the multitude and varietie of them: are prepared for scorners, not onely appointed, but readie to be executed vpon them, either by the magistrate, or else by the Lord himselfe, in this life, or in that which is to come, or in both. And stripes for the backe of fooles, sharpe and seuere plagues, resembled by the scourging of bondmen, are in a readines both for the soules and bodies of these malicious and incorrigible fooles, which shall not lightly be chastened, but greeuously, and extreamely tormented, to their destruction. For the