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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 slothful will not plough because of Winter,] Here is a description of a tender and fearful sluggard. In deed winter is cold, and the weather then sometimes biting, but yet it is a season meet for ploughing, which because the air is nipping and sharp, he letteth alone, by which manner of speech is meant, that a small matter will easily stay an idle person from following his calling, Wherefore he shall beg, shall be driven to seek relief at other mens hands, in Summer, in harvest when his neighbours that took pains in due time, are reaping of their commodities, and enjoy plenty, which will be the greater eye-sore and harts-grief unto him, because it is in the nature of sluggards to be envious, and have nothing: he showeth the cause of his begging, namely penury and need, when all his substance is consumed: and sometimes it falleth out also by Gods righteous providence, to be the success of his begging, that no man shall be moved with compassion towards him, to minister any, or at least sufficient food or apparel unto him.
THe slouthfull will not plowe because of Winter,] Here is a description of a tender and fearefull sluggard. In deede winter is colde, and the weather then sometimes biting, but yet it is a season meete for plowing, which because the aire is nipping and sharp, he letteth alone, by which manner of speech is meant, that a small matter will easily stay an idle person from following his calling, Wherefore he shall begge, shall be driuen to seeke reliefe at other mens hands, in Sommer, in haruest when his neighbours that tooke paines in due time, are reaping of their commodities, and inioy plenty, which will be the greater eye-sore and harts-griefe vnto him, because it is in the nature of sluggards to be enuious, and haue nothing: he sheweth the cause of his begging, namely penury and neede, when all his substance is consumed: and sometimes it falleth out also by Gods righteous prouidence, to be the successe of his begging, that no man shall be moued with compassion towardes him, to minister any, or at least sufficient foode or apparell vnto him.
¶ Light occasions will hinder careless men from the doing of Doct. 1 necessary duties.