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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.
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 1mouth to man? or who hath made the dumbe, or the deafe, or him that seeth, or the blinde? Haue not I the Lord?
First, it is not in the power of creatures to do smaller matters Reas. 1 then to make eyes, and ears, they cannot make hairs, nay they cannot give colour to their hairs which are made to their hands, and grow upon their heads: that which is black they1 cannot change into white, and that which is white they cannot turn into black: now he that is not able to do the less, will less be able to do the greater.
First, it is not in the power of creatures to doe smaller matters Reas. 1 then to make eyes, and eares, they cannot make haires, nay they cannot giue coulour to their haires which are made to their handes, and grow vpon their heades: that which is blacke they