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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. 19. With him that goeth about as a slanderer, disclosing a secret, and with him that flattereth with his lips join not thy self.
Vers. 19. With him that goeth about as a slanderer, disclosing a secret, and with him that flattereth with his lips ioyne not thy selfe.
Albeit it is a good thing to take counsel, yet it is not safe for a man to communicate his affairs to all sorts of persons: for if a secret be not kept, counsel is made frustrate. Wherefore he giveth a caveat to beware, among others, of two kinds of people especially, whereof the first are slanderers, and tale-tellers, whom (as he did in the eleventh Chapter vers. 13.) he resembleth to Peddlers, who mingle sundry sorts of wares together, and go from place to place to utter those things which they have received from others, for that they tell that to this man, which they heard of that, and wander hither and thither to gather up tales to tell wheresoever they come, and commonly report them otherwise, and far worse then they heard them, neither is there any thing that they can conceal, what dangers or mischiefs soever the disclosing of it will procure.
ALbeit it is a good thing to take counsaile, yet it is not safe for a man to cōmunicate his affaires to all sorts of persons: for if a secret be not kept, counsaile is made frustrate. Wherefore he giueth a caueat to beware, among others, of two kindes of people especially, whereof the first are slanderers, and tale-tellers, whom (as he did in the eleauenth Chapter vers. 13.) he resembleth to Pedlers, who mingle sundry sorts of wares together, and goe from place to place to vtter those thinges which they haue receiued from others, for that they tell that to this man, which they heard of that, and wander hither and thither to gather vp tales to tell wheresoeuer they come, and commonly report them otherwise, and farre worse then they heard them, neitheir is there any thing that they can conceale, what dangers or mischiefes soeuer the disclosing of it will procure.