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…

Secondly, it doth aswell make them prudent to deal wisely, §2as righteous to deal warrantably in all their behaviour & where wisdom and justice join hands in working, the effect must needs be comfortable which they jointly produce.

Secondly, it doth aswell make them prudent to deale wisely, §2as righteous to deale warrantably in all their behauiour & where wisedome and iustice ioyne hands in working, the effect must needs be comfortable which they ioyntly produce.

But it cometh to pass commonly, as is daily to be seen in Object. many places, that the most gracious are least prosperous, and the best men seem to be in the worst state. Many of them are poor, many of them are despised, many of them are oppressed, and all of them are afflicted. If they be free from troubles at one time, they fall into them at another: if they escape those crosses which other feel, they feel those griefs which others escape: if they be exempted from outward calamity and molestation, they shall be assaulted with inward anxiety and temptations, and how then can it truly be said, that grace doth give them good success?

But it commeth to passe commonly, as is daily to be seene in Obiect. many places, that the most gracious are least prosperous, and the best men seem to be in the worst state. Many of them are poore, many of them are despised, many of them are oppressed, and all of them are afflicted. If they be free from troubles at one time, they fall into them at another: if they escape those crosses which other feele, they feele those griefes which others escape: if they be exempted from outward calamity and molestation, they shall be assaulted with inward anxiety and temptations, and how then can it truly be sayd, that grace doth giue them good successe?