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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.
After that the children of God have once embraced his promises, afflictions and temptations do usually ensue thereupon, that it would seem to sense and fleshly reason, that misery and troubles were the only rewards of piety, and obedience, and nothing else performed to them that trust in his word. Now therefore he showeth that a better state and condition remaineth for them: that their sorrow shall be turned into joy, & their mourning into gladness, when the Lord shall deliver them from troubles, and fulfil all his promises. Which is illustrated and further amplified by the contrary case of the wicked: which, howsoever now they seem to have the preeminence, and are most likely to prevail hereafter, shall yet be deprived of their present prosperity, & frustrated of all future expectation. This ⟨p. 114⟩then is the opposition: The hope of the righteous shall prevail, and bring them gladness: but the hope of the wicked shall perish, and so work them sorrow.
After that the children of God haue once imbraced his promises, afflictions and temptations doe vsually ensue thereupon, that it would seeme to sence and fleshly reason, that misery and troubles were the onely rewards of pietie, and obedience, and nothing else performed to them that trust in his word. Now therefore he sheweth that a better state and condicion remaineth for them: that their sorrow shalbe turned into ioy, & their mourning into gladnes, when the Lord shall deliuer them from troubles, and fulfill all his promises. Which is illustrated and further amplified by the contrary case of the wicked: which, howsoeuer now they seeme to haue the preheminence, and are most likely to preuaile heereafter, shall yet be depriued of their present prosperitie, & frustrated of all future expectation. This ⟨p. 114⟩then is the opposition: The hope of the righteous shall preuaile, and bring them gladnesse: but the hope of the wicked shall perish, and so worke them sorrow.
The patient abiding, &c. They which depend on God in their Doct. afflictions, shall in due season be delivered from them. Upon