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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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¶ 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.
By this unlawful lucre his neighbour is wronged, his own conscience burdened, his soul and body both in danger to be destroyed, and that for ever; and yet it is for his tooth, it more delighteth him then his dinner. It hath been always and every where to be found, that the baits of sin are more delectable to fleshly men, then the blessings of God. See Chap. 9. ver. 17.
By this vnlawfull lucre his neighboure is wronged, his owne conscience burdened, his soule and bodie both in daunger to be destroyed, and that for euer; and yet it is for his tooth, it more delighteth him then his dinner. It hath beene alwaies and euery where to be found, that the baites of sinne are more delectable to fleshly men, then the blessings of God. See Chap. 9. ver. 17.
¶ But afterwards, &c. Though iniquity, and wickedness yield Doct. 2 pleasures at the beginning, yet they will put men to pain in the end.
¶ But afterwards, &c. Though iniquity, and wickednesse yeelde Doct. 2 pleasures at the beginning, yet they will put men to paine in the end.