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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.
¶ Where God worketh grace, he also giveth knowledge and Doct. 2 understanding.
¶ Where God worketh grace, he also giueth knowledge and Doct. 2 vnderstanding.
His spirit is not pleased to dwell in a dark habitation, such a room is fit for Satan, the devil is the Prince of darkness: but the Lord doth ever kindle a light in the souls of those whom he doth inhabit, that they shall see his presence, and know his will, and be made acquainted with his heavenly counsels. The certainty hereof is grounded upon his own own testimony in the Psalm, where he saith, The secret of the Lord is revealed to them 1that fear him: and it is his covenant to give them understanding. and upon his promise in the Prophet: I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts: and they shall all know me 2from the lest of them to the greatest of them, saith the Lord, and upon the large accomplishment thereof in the new testament, as as Saint Paul Witnesseth: The things which eye hath not seen, neither ear hath heard, neither came into mans heart, are, which 3God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them to us by his spirit: for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
His spirit is not pleased to dwell in a darke habitation, such a roome is fit for Satan, the deuill is the Prince of darkenesse: but the Lord doth euer kindle a light in the soules of those whom he doth inhabite, that they shall see his presence, and know his wil, and be made acquainted with his heauenly counsells. The certainty hereof is grounded vpon his owne owne testimony in the Psalme, where he saith, The secret of the Lord is reueiled to them