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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
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Reasons. 1 First, their carnal wisdom is altogether unsufficient to make them serviceable to God, or any thing which they do to be acceptable unto him, and it standeth them in no steed for their credit. For those which be vile in his eyes, shall in time be base in the sight of men: and the punishment of their folly in the end, shall make it appear they were fools all the time before. Of this point speaketh the Prophet: The wise men are ashamed, they are afraid and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?1
Reasons. 1 First, their carnall wisedome is altogether vnsufficient to make them seruiceable to God, or any thing which they doe to be acceptable vnto him, and it standeth them in no steed for their credit. For those which bee vile in his eyes, shall in time be base in the sight of men: and the punishment of their follie in the end, shall make it appeare they were fooles all the time before. Of this point speaketh the Prophet: The wise men are ashamed, they are afraide and taken: loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lord, and what wisedome is in them?1
Secondly, their carnal wisdom can neither preserve them from death, nor prepare them to die blessedly. It cannot stay their life from going, neither can it stop the curse from coming.
Secondly, their carnall wisedome can neither preserue them from death, nor prepare them to die blessedly. It cannot stay their life from going, neither can it stop the curse from comming.