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…

According as every sin is more delightful, so is it more Doct. dangerous and deceitful. The sweet meats of wickedness ¹will have the sour sauce of wretchedness and misery. Sinfulness will be the bane of transgressors, as the harlot is commonly of adulterers. It is the holy Proverb of God, that when the bread of deceit is sweet to the taste, it turneth to grit, and gravel, to the torment of the teeth. Chap. 20. 17.

According as euery sinne is more delightfull, so is it more Doct. dangerous and deceitfull. The sweet meates of wickednesse ¹will haue the sowre sauce of wretchednesse and misery. Sinnefulnesse wilbe the bane of transgressors, as the harlot is commonly of adulterers. It is the holy Prouerbe of God, that when the bread of deceit is sweet to the tast, it turneth to grit, and grauell, to the torment of the teeth. Chap. 20. 17.

1. 1Sin the more pleasing the more pernicious.

First, as it appeareth here, men be willingly ignorant of Reasons. 1 the evils to come, when their desires be satisfied for the present. Which thing our Saviour doth also intimate by the example of the old world: when once they gave over themselves ¹to profit, and pleasure: as feasting, and marrying, & planting, and building, and trafficking: they knew nothing till the flood came, though Noah had foretold them above an hundred years together.

First, as it appeareth heere, men be willingly ignorant of Reasons. 1 the euills to come, when their desires be satisfied for the present. Which thing our Sauiour doth also intimate by the example of the old world: when once they gaue ouer themselues ¹