A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes…

Doct. 2 The love of God is not according to that which men have of outward things, but to that which they are in hart and behaviour. Many froward men are great in the world, and yet are all gently abhorred of him: and most upright men are of the meaner sort, and yet nothing the less in his favour. And this is Davids meaning when he saith, The Lord will try the righteous, but the ¹wicked and him that loveth iniquity doth his soul hate. The righteous are his gold, and therefore he will refine them until they be perfectly purged from all dross: yet he loveth them as well in the furnace as in the treasury: but as for the ungodly, howsoever he seem to spare them, yet he doth not like them: and though the might of his hand be not yet upon them, yet the hatred of his heart is strongly against them.

Doct. 2 The loue of God is not according to that which men haue of outward things, but to that which they are in hart and behauiour. Many froward men are great in the world, and yet are all gentlie abhorred of him: and most vpright men are of the meaner sort, and yet nothing the lesse in his fauour. And this is Dauids meaning when he saith, The Lord will trie the righteous, but the ¹wicked and him that loueth iniquitie doth his soule hate. The righteous are his gold, and therefore he will refine them vntill they bee perfectly purged from al drosse: yet he loueth them as well in the fornace as in the treasurie: but as for the vngodly, howsoeuer hee seeme to spare them, yet he doth not like them: and though the might of his hand bee not yet vpon them, yet the hatred of his heart is strongly against them.

1. 1Psal. 11. 5.

Reasons. 1 The righteous stand before him in the merits and glorious righteousness of Jesus Christ: he is his well-beloved son, and in