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…

Here followeth another event ensuing upon the former, that as they had pleasure at the first, so they must have pain at the last: as their entertainment was with delight, so shall their reckoning be with destruction. It is said, he knoweth not: that is, ⟨p. 43⟩every one of them that be tractable to her call have the peril of their state hid from their eyes.

Heere followeth another euent insuing vpon the former, that as they had pleasure at the first, so they must haue paine at the last: as their intertainment was with delight, so shall their reckoning be with destruction. It is said, he knoweth not: that is, ⟨p. 43⟩euery one of them that bee tractable to her call haue the perill of their state hid from their eyes.

That the dead are there, &c. That all that give themselves to such courses are strangers from the life of God, and in the power of the first death; and in the depth of hell, that is, are as certain to be damned in the world to come (unless God give them repentance) as if they were already in hell fire.

That the dead are there, &c. That all that giue themselues to such courses are strangers from the life of God, and in the power of the first death; and in the depth of hell, that is, are as certaine to bee damned in the world to come (vnlesse God giue them repentance) as if they were already in hell fire.

According as every sin is more delightful, so is it more Doct. dangerous and deceitful. The sweet meats of wickedness ¹