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, all the threatenings of the law be due unto them, and will Reasons. 1 in time accordingly be executed, as is said in Deuteronomy: All these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake ¹thee, till thou be destroyed, because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord thy God.

First, all the threatnings of the law be due vnto them, and will Reasons. 1 in time accordingly be executed, as is sayd in Deuteronomie: All these curses shall come vpon thee, and shall pursue thee, and ouertake ¹thee, till thou be dectroied, because thou obeiedst not the voyce of the Lord thy God.

1. 1Deut. 28 45.

Secondly, they renounce the Lord himself from being their §2God and king: they disclaim his crown and sceptre, his authority and government: they actually deny his nature and attributes. The rebellion of such ungodly persons the Lord complaineth of in the Psalms, saying: My people would not hear my voice, and Israel ¹would none of me. The punishment of such contemptuous rebels our Saviour doth foretell in the gospel, saying: those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, ²and slate them before me. Earthly Princes will not endure despite at their greatest subjects hands, to have their dignity defaced, or their laws violated, or their governance trodden under foot, and therefore much less will the Lord of glory, of justice, & power bear such indignities at the hands of sinful men which are his most abject and contemptible creatures?