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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS. › Chapter 18
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Thirdly, penury and want is threatened unto them, and executed §3upon them, and so are they whipped with the same rod wherewith wasters are scourged. He that loveth pastime (saith he, of the spend-thrift) shall be a poor man: and he that loveth 1oil and wine shall not be rich. And thy poverty, (saith he, to the slothful) cometh as one that travaileth by the way, it maketh hast2 as a Post, or swift passenger, and thy necessity like an armed man, with force and violence unresistably.
Thirdly, penurie and want is threatned vnto them, and executed §3vpon them, and so are they whipped with the same rodde wherewith wasters are scourged. Hee that loueth pastime (sayth hee, of the spend-thrift) shall be a poore man: and hee that loueth 1oyle and wine shall not be rich. And thy pouertie, (saith hee, to the slothfull) commeth as one that trauaileth by the way, it maketh hast2 as a Poast, or swift passenger, and thy necessitie like an armed man, with force and violence vnresistably.
Fourthly, they are seldom patient of poverty, though §4