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…

Secondly, as touching the manner thereof it is said that it is ⟨p. 104⟩continually bearing without stay, or failing, not once a year, but once in a month, not in summer only, but in winter also, and every time new kinds of fruit, and not of one sort alone (as it falleth out commonly with other trees, for in them the same branch never varieth the kind) and that rotteth not, nor droppeth down ¹with ripeness. In like sort doth the spirit of grace make Gods children constant in well doing, and that also in performance of many duties, according to the variety of occasions and opportunities offered. They join virtue with their faith: and with virtue knowledge: and with knowledge temperance: and with temperance ²patience: and with patience godliness: and with godliness brotherly kindness: and with brotherly kindness love. If they see the members of ³Christ hungry, they give them meat; if thirsty, they give them drink: if naked, they clothe them: if they be strangers, they lodge them: if they be sick, they visit them: if they be in prison, they come unto them, &c.

Secondly, as touching the manner thereof it is said that it is ⟨p. 104⟩continually bearing without stay, or failing, not once a yeere, but once in a moneth, not in sommer only, but in winter also, and euery time new kinds of fruit, and not of one sort alone (as it falleth out commonly with other trees, for in them the same branch neuer varieth the kind) and that rotteth not, nor droppeth downe ¹with ripenesse. In like sort doth the spirit of grace make Gods children constant in well doing, and that also in performance of many dueties, according to the varietie of occasions and opportunities offered. They ioyne vertue with their faith: and with vertue knowledge: and with knowledge temperance: and with temperance ²