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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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Fourthly, they are seldom patient of poverty, though §4often oppressed with it: and therefore, they grow in the end, to lying, and shifting, to falsehood and filching, and all manner of indirect courses. Which appeareth by the precept of the Apostle: Let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let 1him labour with his hands, the thing which is good, that he may have to give unto him that needeth.
Fourthlie, they are seldome patient of pouertie, though §4often oppressed with it: and therefore, they growe in the end, to lying, and shifting, to falshood and filching, and all manner of indirect courses. Which appeareth by the precept of the Apostle: Let him that stole, steale no more: but rather let 1him labour with his hands, the thing which is good, that he may haue to giue vnto him that needeth.
Fifthly, great hurt is done, and much redoundeth to the §5public state by their bad husbandry. By slothfulness, the 1roofs of their houses go to decay, (as the wise-man testifieth,) ⟨p. 11⟩and by the idleness of their hands, their houses drop thorough. Their mounds and stone walls are broken down, and their fields 2