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…

The miserable condition of all irreligious people, whereas §4every one is happy that is wise.

The miserable condicion of all irreligious people, whereas §4euery one is happy that is wise.

Instruction, that if we would have the estimation, comfort, Use 1 direction, success, or any benefit of wisdom, let us not labour for a politic head, but a holy and sanctified hart: not so much for learning and ability to discourse and dispute of points of religion, as for faith to believe, and a good conscience to perform obedience, Deut. 4. 6.

Instruction, that if we would haue the estimation, comfort, Vse 1 direction, successe, or any benefite of wisedome, let vs not labour for a polliticke head, but a holy and sanctified hart: not so much for learning and abilitie to dicourse and dispute of points of religion, as for faith to beleeue, and a good conscience to performe obedience, Deut. 4. 6.

Confutation of them that esteem all to be wise that go §2beyond others in wittand them especially that compass great livings and wealth: was not Ahithophel more witty then any? and did he not ••t play the fool more then all? hath not Satan more subtlety and cunning then all the men in the world? and yet the most foolish creature to work his own woe that ever God made in the world. The Scripture calleth him a principality and a power and speaketh of his craft, but no where giveth him the testimony of wisdom. And to them that know how to feather their nests and increase their state. The rich man in the gospel may be a president: he could get, and save, and keep, and thrive as long as he lived, and yet God