Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. V.
note
An exhortation to speake discretly, and reuerently of God; 3. to performe
vowes; 6. not to be trubled with imaginations, nor present oppressions of
the poore. 9. Auarice is neuer satiate, 11. riches sometimes cause sicknes,
ruine of the bodie, 18. and obliuion of God.
1 Speake note not anie thing rashly, neither let thy hart be
swift to vtter a word before God. For God is in heauen,
and thou vpon the earth: therfore let thy wordes be few.
2 Dreames do folow manie cares, and in manie wordes follie
wil be found.
3 noteIf thou hast vowed anie thing to God,
differre not to pay it: for an vnfaithful and foolish promise
displeaseth him. But what soeuer thou hast vowed, pay it:
4 and it is much better not to vow, then after a vow not to
performe the thinges promised.
5 Geue not thy mouth to
make thy flesh to sinne: neither say thou before note the Angel:
There is no prouidence: lest perhaps God being wrath against
thy wordes, dissipate al the workes of thy handes.
6 Where
manie dreames are, there are manie vanities, and wordes
innumerable: but do thou feare God.
7 If thou shalt see the
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oppressions of the poore, and violent iudgements, and iustice
to be subuerted in the prouince, meruel not at this matter:
because there is an other higher then the high, and ouer these
also there are others more eminent:
8 and besides the king
of al the earth reigneth ouer his seruant.
9 A couetous man
shal not be filled with money: and he that loueth riches, shal
take no fruite of them: and this therfore is vanitie.
10 Where
great riches are, there are also manie that eate them. And
what doth it profite the owner, but that he seeth the riches
with his eyes?
11 Sleepe is swete to him that worketh,
whether he eate much or litle: but the satietie of the rich
doth not suffer him to sleepe.
12 There is also an other very il
infirmitie, which I haue sene vnder the sunne: riches kept to
the hurt of the owner.
13 For they perish in very euil
affliction: he note hath begotten a sonne, which shal be in great
pouertie.
14 As he came forth naked from his mothers
wombe, so shal he returne, and shal take nothing away with
him of his labour.
15 An infirmitie vtterly miserable: as he
came, so shal he returne. What doth it then profite him, that
he hath labored into the winde?
16 Al the dayes of his life he
eateth in darknes, and in miserie, and in heauines.
17 This
therfore hath semed good to me, that a man eate, and drinke,
and take ioy of his labour, wherwith he hath labored vnder
the sunne, the number of the dayes of his life, which God
hath geuen him, and this is his portion.
18 And to euerie man,
vnto whom God hath geuen riches, and substance, and hath
geuen him powre to eate of them, and to enioy his portion,
and to reioyce of his labour: this is the gift of God.
19 For he
shal not greatly remember the dayes of his life, because God
doth occupie his hart with delightes.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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