A plain and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the…A plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the…

Use 1 Reproof and terror for such as privilege themselves by those prerogatives which they have above other men, whereas none are in so dangerous and miserable estate as they.

Vse 1 Reproofe and terrour for such as priuilege themselues by those prerogatiues which they haue aboue other men, whereas none are in so dangerous and miserable estate as they.

They think their gentry will warrant all impiety, and their dignity assure them of impunity, and their eminent places a protection from all punishments. And therefore so many are puffed up with pride, and practise cruelty, and profess adultery, and breath out blasphemies, and live in voluptuousness, and scarce forbear any kind of iniquity.

They thinke their gentrie will warrant all impietie, and their dignitie assure them of impunitie, and their eminent places a protection from all punishments. And therefore so many are puffed vp with pride, and practise crueltie, and professe adulterie, and breath out blasphemies, and liue in voluptuousnesse, and scarse forbeare any kinde of iniquitie.

Instruction, for honourable personages to take the right way to preserve their honour, by keeping themselves from those corruptions whereunto this age of ours, and that state ⟨p. 71⟩of theirs are very prone. Let them therefore read the Scriptures constantly, as the King was commanded to do all the ¹days of his life, that he might learn to fear the Lord his God, and to keep all the words of the Law. Let them meditate in the same with as great diligence as was required of Joshua, who was to apply himself thereto both day and night, that he might