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…

When God entereth into judgement with wicked men, he Doct. 2 will cause the plague so to manifest their sins, that they shall ¹not be able to deny them. Though hypocrites can make the greatest show, and usually be most forward to speak for themselves: yet when God found out the dissembler in the Gospel, and called him to a reckoning for intruding himself to his feast without a wedding garment, he was stricken dumb ²and speechless, he could plead nothing for himself. Haman standing only before the minister of Gods vengeance, having been before that time his greatest friend, yet when Esther accused ³him of his false and cruel practices: he stood mute, and could not reply. He that attempted to stop the mouth of Mordecai, had his own mouth stopped with his violence. And therefore when God himself cometh to indict men, and to set their sins in order before them, all mouths shall be stopped, ⁴and all the world shall be culpable before him. No sinful ⁵and unregenerate person which hath no right to plead Christs merits, can possibly speak any thing to justify himself.

When God entreth into iudgement with wicked men, hee Doct. 2 will cause the plague so to manifest their sinnes, that they shall ¹not bee able to denie them. Though hipocrites can make the greatest shew, and vsuallie bee most forward to speake for themselues: yet when God found out the dissembler in the Gospell, and called him to a reckoning for intruding himselfe to his feast without a wedding garment, he was striken dumme ²and speechlesse, hee could plead nothing for himselfe. Haman standing onely before the minister of Gods vengeance, hauing beene before that time his greatest friend, yet when Hester accused ³