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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.
The glory of the young is their strength,] It is an ornament unto them, and praise for them to be strong, valiant, and full of agility and courage, if they use these gifts well, and exercise them profitably in their callings, and for the good of the common wealth wherein they line: for otherwise, if they be boisterous, violent, and given to fighting and quarrelling, especially, if they embolden themselves therewith, to robberies, or such like villainies, ⟨p. 165⟩they are no more commendable in them, then is the strength of great Bears, or other wild beasts which are noisome and hurtful: Goliath, and Og, and the Anakims, and other Giants were tall men, yea huge and strong, and yet are neither praise worthy, nor praised: and the honour of the aged is the grayhead, the white hairs which publish their aunciency, and the multitude of years which they have lived, do bring credit and reverence unto them, so that they be garnished with gravity, wisdom, and other virtues, as it is said, Old age is a crown of Glory, when it is found in the way of righteousness. Chap. 16. v. 31.
THe glory of the young is their strength,] It is an ornament vnto them, and praise for them to be strong, valiant, and full of agility and courage, if they vse these gifes wel, and exercise them profitably in their callings, and for the good of the common wealth wherein they line: for otherwise, if they bee boisterous, violent, and giuen to fighting and quarrelling, especially, if they imbolden themselues therewith, to robberies, or such like villanies, ⟨p. 165⟩they are no more commendable in them, then is the strength of great Beares, or other wilde beasts which are noysome and hurtfull: Goliah, and Og, and the Anakims, and other Gyants were tall men, yea huge and strong, and yet are neither praise worthy, nor praised: and the honour of the aged is the grayhead, the white haires which publish their aunciency, and the multitude of yeares which they haue liued, doe bring credite and reuerence vnto them, so that they be garnished with grauity, wisdome, and other vertues, as it is sayed, Old age is a crowne of Glory, when it is found in the way of righteousnesse. Chap. 16. v. 31.