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. VIII
note
VVisdom excelling al thinges, that can be desired, 9. is worthely preferred
as the cause of much estimation, 13. and of immortal glorie, 16. without
molestation. 21. Al which is Gods gift.
1 She note reacheth therfore from end vnto end mightely, and
disposeth al thinges swetely.
2 Her haue I loued, and haue
sought her out from my youth, and haue sought to take her
for my spouse, and I was made a louer of her beautie.
3 She
glorifieth her nobilitie, hauing consociation with God: yea and
the Lord of al hath loued her.
4 For she is the mistresse of the
discipline of God, & the chooser of his workes.
5 And if riches
be desired in life, what is richer then wisdom, which worketh
al thinges?
6 And if vnderstanding doe worke: who is the
worker of those things that are, more then she?
7 And if a
man loue iustice: her labours haue great vertues: for she teacheth
sobrietie, and prudence, and iustice, and strength,
then the which nothing is more profitable in life to men.
8 And if a man desire multitude of knowlege: she knoweth
thinges past, & coniectureth of thinges to come: she knoweth
the subtilities of wordes, and the solution of arguments: she
knoweth signes and wonders before they be done, and the
euentes of times and ages.
9 noteI purposed therfore to bring
her to me to liue together: knowing that she wil communicate
vnto me of good thinges, and wil be a comfort of my cogitation
& tediousnes.
10 I shal haue for her sake note glorie with
the multitudes, and honour with the ancient being yong:
11 and I shal be found sharpe in iudgement, and in the sight
of the mightie I shal be meruelous, and the faces of princes
wil meruel at me.
12 Holding my peace they shal expect me,
and whiles I speake manie wordes, they shal lay their hands on
their mouth.
13 Moreouer by her I shal haue note immortalitie:
and I shal leaue an eternal memorie to them, that shal be after
me.
14 I shal dispose peoples: and nations shal be subiect to
me.
15 Horrible kings hearing shal feare me: in the multitude
I shal seme good, and in battel strong.
16 Entring into my
house, I shal rest with her: for her conuersation hath no bitternes,
nor her companie tediousnes, but ioy and gladnesse.
17 Thinking these thinges with myselfe, and recording in my
hart, that note immortalitie is in the kindred of wisedom,
18 and
good delectation in her frendship, and in the workes of her
-- --
handes honestie without defect, and wisdom in the disputation
of her talke, and glorie in the communication of her
wordes: I went about seeking, that I might take her to me.
19 And I was a wittie childe, and had gotten a good soule.
20 And wheras I was more good, I came to note a bodie vndefiled.
21 And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent,
vnlesse God gaue it, this verie thing also was wisdom, to
know whose this gift was: I went to our Lord, and besought
him, and said from my whole hart.
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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