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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.
Afflictions and corrections may come upon the righteous, but no revenging curse tending to destruction, as if they were abjects. But the wicked are full of evil both of guiltiness, and continual practise, according to the corruption of their hearts, which the righteous are purged from, and therefore also of those punishments which the righteous escape.
AFflictions and corrections may come vpon the righteous, but no reuenging curse tending to destruction, as if they were abiects. But the wicked are full of euill both of guiltines, and continuall practise, according to the corruption of their hearts, which the righteous are purged from, and therefore also of those punishments which the righteous escape.
Doct. Though the Lord afflict the godly, as well as the godless, yet it is done in far different manner.
Doct. Though the Lord afflict the godly, as well as the godlesse, yet it is done in farre different manner.
He cometh as a father in mercy and mildness to the one, and dealeth as a Judge, or rather an enemy, in wrath and severity with the other. He cometh with his pruning knife to cut off the superfluous sprigs and branches of the one, and with a keen axe in his hand to hew down by the roots the stocks and bodies of the other. And this difference is spoken of in the fourteenth chapter of this book, vers. 32. The wicked shall be cast away for his naughtiness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. And this difference is spoken of in the seven and twentieth of Isaiah, verse 7. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by him? That is, hath the Lord plagued Israel his Church and people in such a grievous manner as he hath destroyed their enemies? it is manifest he hath not. And this difference is spoken of in the eight chapter to the Romans, verse 1. that there is no damnation to them that are in Christ Jesus that walk after the spirit, as there is to them that walk after the flesh.