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…

The credit and honour of good men will grow to be better, Doct. and the reputation of sinners will be turned into shame. ¹Only godly men have good names, and it is one difference that God putteth between them and the wicked, that they be blessed herein peculiarly, and all others excluded from the benefit of it. Such a threatening doth Isaiah denounce against the wicked: You shall leave your name as a curse to my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay you and call his servants by a new name. Though sinful men be magnified of sinners, yet they shall be made abominable to Saints, and that is the greatest reproach: and though good men be despised of the world, yet God will give them glory, and increase it, and vouchsafe the titles, not only of his servants, but even of his own children.

The credite and honour of good men will grow to be better, Doct. and the reputation of sinners will bee turned into shame. ¹Onely godly men haue good names, and it is one difference that God putteth betweene them and the wicked, that they bee blessed heerein peculiarly, and all others excluded from the benefit of it. Such a threatning doth Isaias denounce against the wicked: You shall leaue your name as a curse to my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay you and call his seruants by a new name. Though sinfull men bee magnified of sinners, yet they shall bee made abhominable to Saints, and that is the greatest reproach: and though good men bee despised of the world, yet God will giue them glory, and increase it, and vouchsafe the titles, not onely of his seruants, but euen of his owne children.

1. 1Good men grow in credit but sinners glory ends in shame.

First, they all, and none but they, are in credit with God Reasons. 1 and good men, and that only is to be accounted true honour.