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…

Thirdly, if piety and religion did make men abject & despised §3then as their grace did grow, their credit would decrease, & the riper they waxed in goodness, the deeper they would sink into baseness: & perfect holiness would bring them to a perfection of ignominy: which who seeth not to be otherwise? Especially at the end of the world, when the saints shall be replenished with the fullness of grace, shall they not be beautified with the brightness of glory; and have power committed unto them to be judges of all the reprobates, both of men and Angels?

Thirdly, if piety and religion did make men abiect & despised §3then as their grace did grow, their credit would decrease, & the riper they waxed in goodnes, the deeper they would sinke into basenes: & perfect holines would bring thē to a perfectiō of ignominy: which who seeth not to be otherwise? Especially at the end of the world, whē the saints shall be replenished with the fulnes of grace, shall they not be beautified with the brightnes of glory; and haue power committed vnto them to bee iudges of all the reprobates, both of men and Angels?

Confutation of that error which is in the mouths of money Use. 1 and the minds of more, that he which will be religious, must needs be contemptible, and the way to become great is to grow sinful and godless. Flesh and blood Indeed, would ⟨p. 116⟩have it so, and therefore fleshly men imagine it to be so: they carry an envious heart against the righteous, and therefore be grieved that the righteous should either rise or stand: but he that setteth up & establisheth, and he that casteth down and depresseth, declareth his purpose (which his power also accomplisheth (that his servants shall be made honourable with preferment, and his enemies made underlines with debasement: Daniels faithfulness did never bring him to reproach, nor his adversaries falsehood did ever win them credit. Mordecai could not be kept down, because he was a godly Jew, nor Haman could not be held up, because he was an impious Amalekite. Read through the whole book of the Scriptures, & it will appear that of all the kings (they which were most holy and zealous for the worship of God,) did always best prosper in their own estate. That which is spoken in the Psalm concerning the happiness of them that fear God, will infallibly be verified of every one of them in due season: His