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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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Verse. 11. The substance of the rich man, is as it were his strong city, and as a high wall in his imagination.
Verse. 11. The substance of the rich man, is as it were his strong citie, and as a high wall in his imagination.
IN the former sentence was declared wherein the godly seek for safety, and find it, and that is in the name of the Lord: and in this, wherein the wicked, especially being wealthy, presume of defence, but fail of it, and that is in their goods and possessions. For they seem a strong city, which no dangers can vanquish, and an high wall, that no misery can scale and climb over: but all is in their own imagination, and nothing in truth: for they are weak and low, and utterly void of power against any kind of calamities. See chap. 10. 15.
IN the former sentence was declared wherein the godly seeke for safetie, and finde it, and that is in the name of the Lord: and in this, wherein the wicked, especially being wealthy, presume of defence, but faile of it, and that is in their goods and possessions. For they seeme a strong citie, which no dangers can vanquish, and an high wall, that no miserie can scale and climbe ouer: but all is in their owne imagination, and nothing in truth: for they are weake and lowe, and vtterly void of power against any kind of calamities. See chap. 10. 15.
Verse 12. Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before glory goeth lowliness.
Verse 12. Before destruction the heart of a man is haughtie, and before glorie goeth lowlinesse.