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…

Fourthly, a good man will seek to God by prayers, in the §4good estate of his body to have it continued, in weakness and infirmities to be cured: and this will they do ordinarily as Hezekiah did in a case extraordinary, always resigning themselves to his will.

Fourthly, a good man will seeke to God by prayers, in the §4good estate of his body to haue it continued, in weakenesse and infirmities to bee cured: and this will they doe ordinarily as Ezekias did in a case extraordinary, alwayes resigning themselues to his will.

Fifthly, a godly man will be trusty to himself in the keeping §5of his own body, avoiding surfeitings, and distempers, and disorders, whereby wicked men do weaken themselves, and will conscionably use all fit means of comfort, health & safety.

Fiftly, a godly man will bee trusty to himselfe in the keeping §5of his owne body, auoyding surfetings, and distempers, and disorders, whereby wicked men doe weaken themselues, and will consionably vse all fit meanes of comfort, health & safetie.

Confutation, of them that think the services of wisdom Use. 1 to be the greatest means to shorten mens days. They will kill themselves (say they) by fasting, and praying, and musing, and reading, and running to Sermons: but thus to complain, is indirectly to blaspheme God; either with imputation of unfaithfulness towards them that seek him, or with impotency, and defect of power: for they infer that he windeth them into danger by promise of safety, or that the repair of the soul, must needs be the ruin of the body, and so he cannot heal the one part of man, without hurting of the other.