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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.
His meaning is, that the Lord hath formed the whole man, all the parts of his body, though he nameth only these two, as the seats and instruments of those noble senses of hearing, and seeing, which are mentioned with them, and these, together with all the rest, he enableth and quickeneth to do their office.
HIs meaning is, that the Lord hath formed the whole man, all the parts of his body, though he nameth only these two, as the seates and instruments of those noble senses of hearing, and seeing, which are mentioned with them, and these, together with all the rest, he enableth and quickneth to doe their office.
¶ Our members and senses are the workmanship and gift of Doct. God.
¶ Our members and senses are the workemanship and gift of Doct. God.
No art can make them, nor all the power of all creatures, if they should unite their strength together, were sufficient to fashion so much as a Finger, or Toe, or any other limb, and put feeling into it. The honour hereof the Lord doth challenge to himself in that speech of his to Moses: Who hath given the 1mouth to man? or who hath made the dumb, or the deaf, or him that seeth, or the blind? Have not I the Lord?
No art can make them, nor all the power of all creatures, if they should vnite their strength together, were sufficient to fashion so much as a Finger, or Toe, or any other limme, and put feeling into it. The honour hereof the Lord doth challenge to himselfe in that speech of his to Moses: Who hath giuen the