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…

First, that which men desire with hope and yet cannot have it, Reasons. doth work in them a more sensible feeling of their need, and so they are punished with the pain of hunger and thirst. And so, as food long kept from the stomach, doth bring the body to weakness; even so the thing longed for, prolonged, doth drive the soul to faintness.

First, that which men desire with hope and yet cannot haue it, Reasons. doth worke in them a more sensible feeling of their need, and so they are punished with the paine of hunger and thirst. And so, as foode long kept from the stomack, doth bring the body to weaknes; euen so the thing longed for, prolonged, doth driue the soule to faintnes.

Secondly, it commonly cometh to pass even to good men, §2and those of the best gifts, and greatest graces, that they shall be assaulted with many fears after they lay hold on the covenant of God, until it be performed unto them. The defect of their faith, the sense of their wants, their carnal reason, their fleshly friends, the temptations of Satan will altogether attempt to draw them to doubt, that either they were illuded in apprehending the promise, ⟨p. 32⟩or that the Lord is remiss in fulfilling of it.

Secondly, it commonly commeth to passe euen to good men, §2and those of the best gifts, and greatest graces, that they shall be assaulted with many feares after they lay hold on the couenant of God, vntill it be performed vnto them. The defect of their faith, the sence of their wants, their carnall reason, their fleshly friends, the temptations of Sathan will altogether attempt to draw them to doubt, that either they were illuded in apprehending the promise, ⟨p. 32⟩