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…

Confutation of all Popish prayers which are offered without Use. 1 any assurance of acceptance, and consequently it convinceth all Popish persons to be unrighteous men, because they know not what is acceptable: for so much they plainly declare, when they pronounce they know not what, in a strange language, when they call upon the dead which hear them not at all: when they entertain strange advocates to usurp Christ his office: when they ask things needless, as the salvation of such as are actually and absolutely saved: when they ask things which ⟨p. 120⟩are bootless, as the deliverance of such as are irrecoverably damned. And their best apology for these things is, that if they do no good, they will do no harm, whereby they make profession that they are uncertain whether their prayers be like to please God, or otherwise be vain and idle.

Confutation of all Popish praiers which are offred without Vse. 1 any assurance of acceptance, and consequently it conuinceth all Popish persons to be vnrighteous men, because they know not what is acceptable: for so much they plainelie declare, when they pronounce they know not what, in a strange language, when they call vpon the dead which hear them not at all: when they intertaine strange aduocates to vsurp Christ his office: when they aske things needlesse, as the saluation of such as are actually and absolutely saued: when they aske things which ⟨p. 120⟩are botelesse, as the deliuerance of such as are irrecouerablie damned. And their best apologie for these things is, that if they doe no good, they will doe no harme, whereby they make profession that they are vncertaine whether their prayers bee like to please God, or otherwise be vaine and idle.

Reproof, with terror for them whose mouths speak froward §2things, which may know that their words are grateful to none but the devil, and damnable men, who wittingly and willingly, and spitefully with greedy desire, do belch out such bitter blasphemies, and other cursed speeches, as may offend the majesty of God, and grieve the hearts of his children: which they do of purpose to profess that they are neither servants to the one, nor members of the other, but vowed enemies of both: but do they provoke the Lord to wrath, and not themselves to the confusion of their own faces? do they assault the glorious name of god, & strike at him with their virulent & venomous tongues, and shall not he set upon them, and destroy their souls and bodies with his grievous plagues and fearful judgements? Even this is a principal cause, together with whoredom, and other sins of death, that casteth so many into the magistrates hand, and bringeth them to an ignominious end, for stealth, and robberies, for murders, and most hellish and abominable treasons.