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…

And the knowledge. Sound and sanctified knowledge is the Doct. 1 mother of all Christian devotion, where that faileth, there can ¹be no sincere piety: so saith God himself in the first Chapter, ver. 29. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord. Which Job reproves in the wicked worldlings of his time: they say to God, depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ²ways, who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit shall we have if we should pray to him? wherein they declare that they hate his presence, and reject the knowledge of his will, and cast off all care of his worship, and so there is an irreligious heart, an ignorant mind, and an impious behaviour.

And the knowledge. Sound and sanctified knowledge is the Doct. 1 mother of all Christian deuotion, where that faileth, there can ¹be no sincere pietie: so saith God himselfe in the first Chapter, ver. 29. They hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord. Which Iob reproues in the wicked worldlings of his time: they say to God, depart from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy ²wayes, who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit shall wee haue if we should pray to him? wherein they declare that they hate his presence, and reiect the knowledge of his will, and cast off all care of his worship, and so there is an irreligious heart, an ignorant minde, and an impious behauiour.

1. 1No true devotion without true knowledge.No true deuotion without true knowledge.
2. 2Job. 21. 14. 15.Iob. 21. 14. 15.