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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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Vers. 14. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth.
IT is naught, it is naught,] Albeit the ware cheapened be good, and well worth the price demanded by the seller, yet the covetous buyer, to the end he may get it better cheap, whiles he is bidding money for it, dispraiseth it to the uttermost: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth, after he hath bought the thing, and behind the sellers back, he praiseth his bargain, both for the goodness of the commodity, and for the good penny-worth which he had therein. And hereby in like manner the disposition and behaviour of the seller is to be understood, which is as forwards to extol, and set out that which is bad, as the other to find fault with that which is good. For if they be both false and wicked, as this testimony concerneth none other, they will depart with their own with no more truth, and equity, then they seek to come by an other mans, and the Lord doth as much look into, and loath the injustice of the one, as of the other.
IT is naught, it is naught,] Albeit the ware cheapened be good, and well worth the price demaunded by the seller, yet the couetous buyer, to the end he may get it better cheape, whiles he is bidding mony for it, dispraiseth it to the vttermost: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth, after he hath bought the thing, and behind the sellers backe, he praiseth his bargaine, both for the goodnesse of the commodity, and for the good peny-worth which he had therein. And hereby in like manner the disposition and behauiour of the seller is to be vnderstood, which is as forwards to extoll, and set out that which is badde, as the other to finde fault with that which is good. For if they be both false and wicked, as this testimony concerneth none other, they will depart with their owne with no more truth, and equity, then they seeke to come by an other mans, and the Lord doth asmuch looke into, and loath the iniustice of the one, as of the other.