A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the…A godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the…

Hence we learn, that we must not despise parties miserable by reason of their sins,¹ or scorn and contemn them. But contrariwise lament & pity them. When David saw men sin, and so pull heaps of miseries upon them, ^bhe shed rivers of tears. The Lord makes it a good mans property ^cto mourn for the abominations of the people. Jeremiah ^dfor the sins of the people wished his head were full of water. And just Lot ^egrieved his righteous hart for the abominations of Sodom. It was the fault of the Corinthians which Paul reproveth, that when the incestuous man had sinned that grievous sin, ^fThey were not humbled, but puffed with contempt against the party. And it is a fault in sundry men at this day, that they are not humbled in themselves when they see other men sin. We must not do so, but show the grace we have above others, in being grieved for the miseries, which men without grace by their sins pull daily upon them. Thus much of their misery in general.

Hence we learne, that we must not despise parties miserable by reason of their sins,¹ or scorne and contemne them. But contrariwise lament & pity them. When Dauid saw men sin, and so pull heapes of miseries vpon them, ^bhe shed riuers of tears. The Lord makes it a good mans property ^cto mourne for the abhominations of the people. Ieremie ^dfor the sins of the people wished his head were full of water. And iust Lot