A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs…

Confutation of them that too far justify the ways of good §2men, approving their errors in opinion, their slips in speeches, their slidings in actions, and all else to be well, and warrantable, and imitable, if the men be wise and godly. Nothing of them is to be misliked that hath an example of any good men practising the like: but they consider not that some things may grow on the slips that spring from the root, and not all on the sience that is ingrafted.

Confutation of them that too far iustifie the waies of good §2men, approuing their errours in opinion, their slips in speaches, their slidings in actions, and all else to bee well, and warrantable, and imitable, if the men bee wise and godly. Nothing of them is to bee misliked that hath an example of any good men practising the like: but they consider not that some things may grow on the slips that spring from the roote, and not all on the sience that is ingrafted.

It is a note of a man that is truly religious to increase in Doct. 2 grace and understanding. It appeareth that they live by their ¹meat, and have good digestion of it, when they grow in stature, strength, and stomach. So was it said in the first Chapter: ⟨p. 21⟩A wise man shall hear and increase in learning. The bare hearing doth not necessarily argue a wise man. For fools do often bring their ears to the word, but to hear, and learn, and to learn with increase, that doth testify an holy wisdom.

It is a note of a man that is truely religious to increase in Doct. 2 grace and vnderstanding. It appeareth that they liue by their ¹