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…

The delay of their hope and desires is not so bitter and tedious as the enjoying thereof will be sweet and comfortable. This point hath bin already handled in the tenth chapter, v. 28. upon these words: The patient abiding of the righteous shall be gladness.

The delay of their hope and desires is not so bitter and tedious as the inioying thereof will be sweet and comfortable. This point hath bin already handled in the tenth chapter, v. 28. vpon these words: The patient abiding of the righteous shall be gladnesse.

But it is abomination to fools, &c. Nothing is more offensive Doct. 2 to wicked men than to be brought to goodness.

But it is abomination to fooles, &c. Nothing is more offensiue Doct. 2 to wicked men than to be brought to goodnes.

It is death unto them to take a good way, and to be honest: they will rather depart with their credit and comfort, and wealth and safety, and salvation, than with their old acquaintance, their¹ dear and well-beloved sins. We read in the Psalms, that God saith to the wicked: Thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee. He doth not lay to their charge so little as negligence, that they had not yet amended their lives, but as much as obstinacy that they would not: as rebellion in behaviour, that they showed contempt to his words, as bitterness of heart that they detested all wholesome erudition. Reasons. 1

Jt is death vnto them to take a good way, and to be honest: they will rather depart with their credit and comfort, and wealth and safety, and saluation, than with their old acquaintance, their