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…

Wisdom, &c. All true wisdom is contained in the holy Doct. 1 word of God, he nameth not power, justice, truth, or mercy, ¹though these be also there in fullness, but wisdom in this case taketh the first place, and shineth out in greatest brightness: In regard whereof, the Apostle with a kind of insultation, doth expostulate with worldly wise men, where is the wise? where is ²the Scribe? hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness? that is, whatsoever policy or reason doth compare with the wisdom of the spirit, or is repugnant to it, or not sanctified by it, that the Lord in word reproveth, and in deed confoundeth.

Wisedome, &c. All true wisedome is contained in the holy Doct. 1 word of God, he nameth not power, iustice, truth, or mercie, ¹though these be also there in fulnesse, but wisedome in this case taketh the first place, and shineth out in greatest brightnesse: In regard whereof, the Apostle with a kind of insultation, doth expostulate with worldly wise men, where is the wise? where is ²the Scribe? hath not God made the wisedome of this world foolishnesse? that is, whatsoeuer policie or reason doth compare with the wisedome of the spirit, or is repugnant to it, or not sanctified by it, that the Lord in word reproueth, and in deede confoundeth.

1. 1All true wisdom is in Gods word.All true wisedome is in Gods word.
2. 21. Cor. 1.

First, it overmatcheth and overthroweth all the craft of Reasons. 1 cunning men, and the subtlety of Satan himself: for whatsoever plots or practises of mischief he hath seemed most to prevail in, have always turned to the ruin of his own kingdom, and albeit he suggest new temptations, and raise up new errors, and devise sins of new fashions, yet the Scriptures are evermore readily appointed with new arguments to repel them.