A godly and learned exposition vppon the Prouerbes of Solomon: written in French by Maister Michael Cope, minister of the woorde of God, at Geneua: and translated into English, by M.O.

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Title: A godly and learned exposition vppon the Prouerbes of Solomon: written in French by Maister Michael Cope, minister of the woorde of God, at Geneua: and translated into English, by M.O.
Author: Cope, Michael, fl. 1557-1564.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: [By Thomas Dawson] for George Bishop,; 1580.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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25 There is a way that seemeth right vnto man: but the yssue thereof are the waies of death.

As it is not without cause, nor vnprofitable, that Solomon repeateth the sentence woorde for woorde, that hee set in the fourteenth chapter and twelfth verse: Euen so ought wee to bee carefull to meditate the same, and therein to beholde our corrupt nature, which followeth his fantasie and good intent, turning away from the path that GOD teacheth vs by his woorde, also to beholde therein our destruction, that wee may labour to auoyde it.