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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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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 2are overgrown with thorns and nettles: by means whereof, those habitations are ruinated, and grounds become barren which peradventure wasters would have sold, and thrifty men have bought, (or purchased) before they came to such desolation.
Fiftlie, great hurt is done, and much redoundeth to the §5publike state by their badde husbandrie. By slothfulnesse, the 1roofes of their houses goe to decay, (as the wise-man testifieth,) ⟨p. 11⟩and by the idlenesse of their handes, their houses droppe thorough. Their mounds and stone walles are broken downe, and their fieldes 2are ouergrowne with thornes and nettles: by meanes whereof, those habitations are ruinated, and groundes become barren which peraduenture wasters would haue solde, and thrifty men haue bought, (or purchased) before they came to such desolation.
- 1Eccl. 19. 18.
- 2Prou. 24. 31.