A plain and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs…

So far as any man is contentious he is proud. Doct. 1

So far as any man is contentious he is proude. Doct. 1

Humility is ever joined with love; and both of them with mildness and patience, and all of them are enemies to bitterness and debate. No man was more ready to pass by wrongs and injuries¹ done unto him then Moses, and that was because Moses exceeded all the men of his time in humility and meekness. And Jesus Christ was the most patient and peaceable of any that ever was in the world, because never any was so humble and lowly as he. And thus very reason among divers others, is brought in the twelfth chapter of Saint Matthew to prove it: He shall not strive ²nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. And contrariwise it hath appeared in all ages that where pride is deepest, there patience is shallowest, and they that overflow with the one, are void and empty of the other: And therefore the wise man opposeth them together as contraries, saying, the patient in spirit ³is better then the proud in spirit. And in another place: He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife. And this will appear the better⁴ ⟨p. 28⟩if we observe the principal branches which the venomous sap of pride breaketh out into.

Humility is euer ioyned with loue; and both of them with mildnes and patience, and all of them are enemies to bitternesse and debate. No man was more ready to passe by wrongs and iniuries