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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…
A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by Thomas for Thomas Man, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, if strife did not more proceed from the inward §2corruptions, then the outward occasions, they that were most wronged, should necessarily be most contentious, and so Moses, and David and Jeremiah, and Paul, and Jesus Christ himself of all other should have been most unquiet and clamorous. But these had never any equal unto them for peaceable and gentle behaviour. Numb. 12. 2. 3. Math. 12. 19. 1. Pet. 4. 23.
Secondly, if strife did not more proceede from the inward §2corruptions, then the outward occasions, they that were most wronged, should necessarilie be most contentious, and so Moises, and Dauid and Ieremie, and Paul, and Iesus Christ himselfe of all other should haue beene most vnquiet and clamorous. But these had neuer any equall vnto them for peaceable and gentle behauiour. Numb. 12. 2. 3. Math. 12. 19. 1. Pet. 4. 23.
Confutation of them that lay the blame of their frowardness Use. 1 upon the unkindness of their neighbours: and especially of such as charge the ministry of the word, and the preachers of it with all the schisms, and seditions, and with all the ⟨p. 81⟩breaches and divisions that are in the Church. They publish the Gospel of grace which teacheth peace, and maketh peace between God and man, and between man and man, yea a man and his own conscience. But would there be so great oppositions, say they, and themselves and their doctrine so much crossed and resisted, unless the cause were in them? They be troublesome men and busy bodies, given to faction, and no man can live in peace by them. The Devil cannot live in quiet by them, and therefore he maketh a tempest in their hearts whom he possesseth, and so their waves dash against the ministers and all other good Christians Our Saviour knew that such would be the success of his Gospel, that wicked men would be in as great a hurly bulie at it as if he had come with fire and sword against them. Jeremiah cleareth