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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.
HE that curseth his father or mother,] which uttereth imprecations, railing and reviling speeches, scoffs and jests, or any manner of despiteful words against both his parents, or either ⟨p. 145⟩of them, to their face, or behind their backs, or after what sort soever he declareth by his words the bitterness of his heart, to bring them to contempt, and to profess how lightly and basely he esteemeth of them, shall have his light put out in extreme darkness, all his prosperity, which in the Scripture is often compared to light, shall be turned into woe and misery, which is usually termed by the name of darkness. And this he showeth shall not be ordinary, and such an affliction as common faults are corrected withal, but exceeding grievous and fearful, as appeareth by the Fpithete extreme, or as it is in the Hebrew text, the blackness of darkness.
HE that curseth his father or mother,] which vttereth imprecations, rayling and reuiling speeches, scoffes and iests, or any manner of dispitefull wordes against both his parents, or eyther ⟨p. 145⟩of them, to their face, or behinde their backes, or after what sort soeuer he declareth by his words the bitternes of his heart, to bring them to contempt, and to professe how lightly and basely he esteemeth of them, shall haue his light put out in extreame darkenesse, all his prosperity, which in the Scripture is often compared to light, shall be turned into woe and miserie, which is vsually tearmed by the name of darkenesse. And this he sheweth shall not be ordinary, and such an affliction as common faults are corrected withall, but exceeding grieuous and fearefull, as appeareth by the Fpithete extreame, or as it is in the Hebrew text, the blacknes of darknes.
¶ Rebellious children, and such as vilify their parents are subject Doct. to some notable mischief and punishment.