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…

Verse 7. When a wicked man dieth his expectation perisheth, and the hope of his power shall perish.

The meaning is, that every sinful mans affection of hoping, and happiness hoped for, and strongest means to attain to his hope, shall end with his life, and die at his death, and vanish away at the time of his destruction. The substance of the point hath been handled in the eight and twentieth verse of the former chapter, and therefore in this place we will only note the circumstance of the time.

THe meaning is, that euery sinfull mans affection of hoping, and happinesse hoped for, and strongest meanes to attaine to his hope, shall end with his life, and die at his death, and vanish away at the time of his destruction. The substance of the point hath been handled in the eight and twentith verse of the former chapter, and therefore in this place we wil onely note the circumstance of the time.

Doct. The confidence of ungodly men is disappointed at their greatest need.

Doct. The confidence of vngodly men is disappointed at their greatest neede.

He never had good by any hope, which hath not the fruition of his hope at his death. Then either it setteth a man in possession of his blessedness, or else casteth him off into misery, woe, and perdition for ever. Though a man should never obtain his desire in any earthly thing during his life, yet if he enjoy salvation after this life, he hath failed of nothing. Though a man should miss of nothing that his heart could wish for, whiles breath is in his body, yet if he be damned when the soul goeth out of his body, he hath never gained any thing. And this is the scope of Job his speech, when he saith, What hope hath the hypocrite though he hath