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…

Lastly, their life it self is not perpetual, but short and of small continuance, and therefore how can it be that their troubles should be endless, or any way of long durance? It is an everlasting trueth which the holy spirit publisheth in the Revelation of Saint John: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from ¹their labours, that is, from all kinds of sorrows and sufferings.

Lastlie, their life it selfe is not perpetuall, but short and of small continuance, and therefore how can it be that their troubles should be endles, or any way of long durance? It is an euerlasting trueth which the holy spirit publisheth in the Reuelation of Saint Iohn: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, for they rest from ¹their labours, that is, from all kinds of sorrowes and sufferings.

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Use. Reproof of their folly which seek to prevent troubles, or to shake them off by shunning the duties of righteousness. As though righteousness were not a sure friend to deliver men, but a treacherous adversary to betray them. As though it were a matter of great peril to please God, and the only way for safety to provoke him. As though the best means of defence were to disarm ones self, and to be weaponed and armed were to expose himself to the shot and strokes of his enemy. And yet this cowardly heart, and erroneous mind is in very many, that they dare not addict themselves strictly to every service of piety and justice, lest they should cast themselves into snares, and troubles, and molestations. They are not persuaded by S. Peters testimony,