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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.
That is naught by their testimony, which they would get for naught, though they think it to be good: and then it is praise-worthy, when they may gain praise by the having of it. The lip of the truth, as it is said in an other place, will be stable for ever, 1and a lying tongue, but for a moment. Where see the point handled more at large.
That is naught by their testimony, which they would get for naught, though they thinke it to be good: and then it is praise-worthy, when they may gaine praise by the hauing of it. The lip of the truth, as it is said in an other place, will be stable for euer, 1and a lying tongue, but for a moment. Where see the point handled more at large.
Verse 15. There is gold, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious Jewell.
Verse 15. There is gold, and a multitude of pretious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a pretious Iewell.
THE ability, and conscience, and use of fruitful speaking is here commended by Comparison, being preferred before those things which are of greatest estimation in the world, there is gold, great store of it, in Mines, in Coin, in Plate, in Chains, and Ornaments, and diversly used, and much desired, and set by, and a multitude of precious stones, great variety of rich gems, as Diamonds, Carbuncles, Rubies, Jaspers, Sapphires, Emeralds, &c. and many of the several sorts of these, but the lips of knowledge, the mouth, and lips of a godly wise man, uttering that sound and holy knowledge which dwelleth in his heart, are a precious Jewell, surmount, and are more worth then all the treasures before mentioned, and therefore more to be accounted of. See chap. 10. ver. 20.