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…

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 ¹to profit, and pleasure: as feasting, and marying, & planting, and building, and traffaquing: they knew nothing till the flood came, though Noah had foretold them aboue an hundred yeares together.

1. 1Mat. 14. 39.

Secondly, when they be possest with the delights of sin, §2they are with much difficulty brought to leave them. As Zophar showeth. Job. 20. 12. &c. that when wickedness is sweet in their mouths, they will favour it, and not forsake it till it turn to a poison in their bowels.

Secondly, when they be possest with the delights of sinne, §2they are with much difficultie brought to leaue them. As Zophar sheweth. Iob. 20. 12. &c. that when wickednesse is sweet in their mouthes, they will fauour it, and not forsake it till it turne to a poyson in their bowells.