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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.
II. CHRON. VIII. IX. [Greek or Hebrew]. THEY were MEN of WAR.
II. CHRON. VIII. IX. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. THEY were MEN of WARRE.
THE Dignity of Chivalry (a point very pertinent for this present appointment) is the Pearl that is enclosed in the casket of my Text. Hereof that you may take the better view, I will set open this casket in your sight. Be pleased therefore to take notice of the general Scope whereat the Holy Ghost aimeth in this Chapter: ⟨p. 410⟩thereby you may discern that the forenamed point, The Dignity of Chivalry, is not violently wrested, but properly ariseth out of my Text. The Sum of this Chapter is A Declaration of the Magnificence of Solomon. Among other evidences thereof this is one, that his native Subjects, Children of Israel, THEY were MEN of WAR. The original expresseth none but words of weight: Circumstantial words, which are as bonds to knit word to word, it leaveth to be understood. There are therefore three only words in the original, all which set out the Dignity of Chivalry, and that by the Persons, their Property, and Part whereunto they were put. 1The first word [Greek or Hebrew] THEY, noteth out Singular Persons. The second, [Greek or Hebrew] MEN, a Special Property. The third, [Greek or Hebrew] WAR, a Select employment.
THE Dignity of Chivalry (a point very pertinent for this present appointment) is the Pearle that is inclosed in the casket of my Text. Hereof that you may take the better view, I will set open this casket in your sight. Be pleased therefore to take notice of the generall Scope whereat the Holy Ghost aimeth in this Chapter: ⟨p. 410⟩thereby you may discerne that the forenamed point, The Dignity of Chivalry, is not violently wrested, but properly ariseth out of my Text. The Summe of this Chapter is A Declaration of the Magnificence of Salomon. Among other evidences thereof this is one, that his native Subjects, Children of Israel, THEY were MEN of WARRE. The originall expresseth none but words of weight: Circumstantiall words, which are as bonds to knit word to word, it leaveth to be understood. There are therefore three onely words in the originall, all which set out the Dignity of Chivalry, and that by the Persons, their Property, and Part whereunto they were put. 1The first word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 THEY, noteth out Singular Persons. The second, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 MEN, a Speciall Property. The third, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 WARRE, a Select imployment.
THEY were MEN of WAR.
THEY were MEN of WARRE.
