B12458:91
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
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.
¶ No trouble or affliction is too heavy for a patient and cheerful Doct. 1 heart to undergo.
¶ No trouble or affliction is too heauie for a patient and cheerfull Doct. 1 heart to vndergoe.
If necessities, if distresses, if stripes, if prisons, if tumults, had1 been of force to make a faithful man to fall, the Apostle Paul would not have been able to stand so constantly as he did; for all these he patiently suffered, for the honour of his ministry. And though Davids calamities, by the rapes, incests, murders, and rebellions, committed in his own family, and even by his own Children, were as grievous and painful, as2 broken bones: yet when his soul did feel Gods favour and goodness towards him, he was not out of hope to recover again his former comfort and joyfulness.
If necessities, if distresses, if stripes, if prisons, if tumults, had1 bene of force to make a faithfull man to fall, the Apostle Paul would not haue bene able to stand so constantlie as hee did; for all these hee patientlie suffered, for the honour of his ministerie. And though Dauids calamities, by the rapes, incests, murders, and rebellions, committed in his owne familie, and euen by his owne Children, were as grieuous and painefull, as2 broken bones: yet when his soule did feele Gods fauour and goodnesse towards him, hee was not out of hope to recouer againe his former comfort and ioyfulnes.