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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.
This whole sentence is allegorical, wherein unlawful gain is resembled to food, the delight that it first bringeth to the pleasant taste of delicious meats, the mind to a mans mouth, and the mischiefs that follow to grit, or little stones, which are very offensive to the teeth. The bread of deceit, all manner of maintenance, or commodities, craftily, cruelly, or by any unjust means compassed, and gotten, is sweet to a man, maketh a worldling and an unrighteous person joyful and glad: but afterwards either in his life time, or at his death, or in the world to come, his mouth shall be filled with gravel, some great and grievous miseries shall befall him. For either his conscience will sting and bite him, and so he shall be vexed with fears and horrors, or else the hand of God will inflict punishment and plagues upon him, and so he shall be over-whelmed with anguish and torments.
THis whole sentence is allegoricall, wherein vnlawfull gaine is resembled to foode, the delight that it first bringeth to the pleasant taste of delitious meats, the minde to a mans mouth, and the mischiefes that follow to grit, or little stones, which are very offensiue to the teeth. The bread of deceite, all manner of maintenance, or commodities, craftily, cruelly, or by any vniust means compassed, and gotten, is sweet to a man, maketh a worldling and an vnrighteous person ioyfull and glad: but afterwards eyther in his life time, or at his death, or in the world to come, his mouth shall be filled with grauell, some great and grieuous miseries shall befall him. For eyther his conscience will stinge and bite him, and so he shall be vexed with feares and horrours, or else the hand of God will inflict punishment and plagues vpon him, and so he shall be ouer-whelmed with anguish and torments.
¶ Nothing is so pleasant to the wicked, as that which is most Doct. 1 hurtful.
¶ Nothing is so pleasant to the wicked, as that which is most Doct. 1 hurtfull.