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…

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.

Confutation, of them that thinke the seruices of wisdome Vse. 1 to bee the greatest meanes to shorten mens daies. They will kill themselues (say they) by fasting, and praying, and musing, and reading, and running to Sermons: but thus to complaine, is indirectly to blaspheme God; either with imputation of vnfaithfulnesse towards them that seeke him, or with impotencie, and defect of power: for they inferre that hee windeth them into daunger by promise of safetie, or that the repaire of the soule, must needes bee the ruine of the body, and so he cannot heale the one part of man, without hurting of the other.