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…

Reproof of sinful Sons, contemptuous, and refractary children, §2which distaste nothing so much as their fathers instructions. They gape for his goods, and long for his livings, & greedily covet after their patrimony: but they reject his goodness, and loath his graces, and will have no portion of his wisdom. If their father ⟨p. 4⟩have any faults, or frailty, which they should beware of, or give them allowance in ought that is unlawful, his facts are authentical presidents for them to follow, his words are all oracles, for their warrant: but if he propose unto them many holy examples of true piety, if he faithfully inform them in the way of godliness and virtue, his course of life is too austere for them to imitate, and his precepts so strict, that they are not bound to the practise of them But is it in the choice of children to enlarge, or extenuate the power of patents at their pleasure? Will they authorize them to be commanders for the service of sin, & disclaim their jurisdiction when they deal for the Lord? Let them know (for in time they are like to feel it) that this contempt is the forerunner of some judgement. Though the father happily can not punish them, yet God is able; though the father would pardon them, yet the Lord will plague them. Eli was more willing to have his admonitions neglected, then his sons to be destroyed, but God would not suffer them so to escape, and therefore it is said, That they obeyed not the voice of their Father, because the ¹Lord would slay them.

Reproofe of sinfull Sonnes, contemptuous, and refractary children, §2which distast nothing so much as their fathers instructions. They gape for his goods, and long for his liuings, & greedily couet after their patrimony: but they reiect his goodnes, and loath his graces, and will haue no portion of his wisedome. If their father ⟨p. 4⟩haue any faults, or frailty, which they should beware of, or giue them allowance in ought that is vnlawfull, his facts are authenticall presidents for them to follow, his words are all oracles, for their warrant: but if he propose vnto them many holy examples of true piety, if he faithfully informe them in the way of godlinesse and vertue, his course of life is too austere for them to imitate, and his precepts so strict, that they are not bound to the practise of them But is it in the choise of children to inlarge, or extenuate the power of patents at their pleasure? Will they authorize them to be commanders for the seruice of sinne, & disclaim their iurisdiction when they deale for the Lord? Let them know (for in time they are like to feele it) that this contempt is the forerunner of some iudgement. Though the father happily can not punish them, yet God is able; though the father would pardon them, yet the Lord will plague them. Eli was more willing to haue his admonitions neglected, then his sonnes to be destroied, but God would not suffer them so to escape, and therefore it is sayd, That they obeied not the voice of their Father, because the