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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…
A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes of Salomon
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Henry Sharpe, 1607London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Henrie Sharpe, 1607
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.
Consolation in afflictions, that they disable us not from being righteous, though they be compensations of sins for which we are not yet sufficiently humbled. We shall add to our own sorrows, and needlessly increase the weight of our burdens, if we condemn our state, because the Lord correcteth us for our faults: if we relinquish our hope of happiness in heaven, because we are recompensed with judgements on earth: it is allotted by God to the best of his servants so to be dealt with.
Consolation in afflictions, that they disable vs not from being righteous, though they be compensations of sinnes for which we are not yet sufficiently humbled. We shall adde to our owne sorrowes, and needleslie increase the weight of our burdens, if wee condemne our state, because the Lord correcteth vs for our faults: if we relinquish our hope of happines in heauen, because we are recompenced with iudgements on earth: it is allotted by God to the best of his seruants so to be dealt with.
Doct. How much more, &c. Every wicked mans state is worse then any godly mans can be. Take the most prosperous of them all, even such as the Prophet speaketh of, that have not a knot to their death, but the web of their life from the womb to the grave, hath run with even thread both in warp and woof without any breach, and let him be compared with a Christian that never saw merry day touching outward things, and he shall be found to be a miserable forlorn caitiff, in respect of this poor servant of God. And indeed the tribulations and afflictions of good men do not bring them behind the wicked, but show that the plagues and punishments of the wicked are yet behind. That reason our Saviour used to the women that lamented him as an unfortunate man, and one forsaken of God: Weep not for me, saith he, but weep for your selves, and your children. For if these things be done to 1a green tree, what shall be done to the dry? This reason the Prophet Jeremiah used to Gentiles bordering upon Judah, which thought that plagues had only belonged to the Church. Lo, I begin to plague the city, where my name is called upon, and should you