A plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon

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Title: A plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
Author: Dod, John, 1549?-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed by Thomas Haueland for Thomas Man,; 1609.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs XV-XVII -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.
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Verse 4. A wholesome tongue is [as] a tree of life: but the frowardnesse thereof is [as] a breach made by the winde.

THE purpose and drift of this sentence is, to declare that the course and custome of godly mens speeches is both comfortable and profitable to them which know how to make vse thereof: as was that goodly tree of life in Para∣dise, continually bearing fruit, so pleasant and pretious. On the contrarie side, as a blustering winde, which throweth downe trees and houses, doth much harme: so a violent and venomous tongue, causing troubles and calamities, is very pernicious and hurtfull. For the former part, see Chap. 11. 30. For the latter, looke Chap. 12. 18.