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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…
A plain and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by R.B. for Roger Jackson, 1608London: printed by R.B. for Roger Iackson, 1608
AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS. › Chapter 13
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The practice of sinful men must needs be damnable, when §3their disposition to it is very dangerous: their words and works and ways are exceeding pernicious, when their harts & thoughts and natures are so hurtful. Eliphaz had made a sound conclusion against Job, if Job had been liable to his premised accusation. Is not thy wickedness saith he, great, and thine iniquities innumerable? 1Therefore snares are round about thee, and fears shall suddenly trouble thee.
The practice of sinfull men must needs be damnable, when §3their disposition to it is very dangerous: their words and works and waies are exceeding pernicious, when their harts & thoughts and natures are so hurtfull. Eliphaz had made a sound conclusion against Iob, if Iob had been liable to his premisted accusation. Is not thy wickednesse saith he, great, and thine iniquitias innumerable? 1Therefore snares are round about thee, and feares shall suddainlie trouble thee.
Instruction to be as careful to fly from every sin, as we are Use. desirous to escape from any perils. No man would willingly fall ⟨p. 40⟩in•o his enemies hands; whom he knoweth to lye in wait for his blood: and the brutish creatures with all their might do fly from those that seek to kill them; and shall we then be more heedless of our souls then they are of their lives, to expose our selves to the baits of the devil, whereby he goeth about to destroy us? True it is that he proposeth pleasures and delights to allure us by them, as he did Eve, but when we have consented and yielded unto him, there will follow nothing but pain and misery, as Eve felt. Great offers he will make us of advancement & credit, if we will use his means to attain unto it, but shame will ensue upon it, and confusion, when we give over our selves to be directed by him. Wealth and riches he knoweth man naturally to hunger and hunt after, and therefore he commonly doth feed their humour with hope of commodity, but when they bite at his bait they swallow down the hook withal, and so are made his pray to their perdition. And though they miss of the gain which they look for, yet he misseth not of their souls which he fisheth for if he can fasten his angle upon their desires, and catch them by the gills. For so the Holy ghost himself witnesseth, saying, They that will be rich fall into temptation, and snares, & into many