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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…
A plain and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by Thomas Haveland for Thomas Man, 1609London: printed by Thomas Haueland for Thomas Man, 1609
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Reason 1 First, the Lord doth take it for an high honour to be trusted in, and depended upon, not allowing any creature to be joined with him therein. Love is so due to him, as his children are also to be loved for his sake, and our neighbours by his appointment. And fear is so required by him, as that Princes, and parents, and other governors, must according to his commandment be feared. But confidence is a worship properly reserved to himself, and may not be communicated to any other, without disloyalty to him. It were sacrilege for superiors to challenge it, and Idolatry for inferiors to yield it.
Reason 1 First, the Lord doth take it for an high honour to be trusted in, and depended vpon, not allowing any creature to bee ioined with him therein. Loue is so due to him, as his children are also to be loued for his sake, and our neighbours by his appointment. And feare is so required by him, as that Princes, and parents, and other gouernours, must according to his commandement be feared. But confidence is a worship properly reserued to himselfe, and may not bee communicated to any other, without disloialtie to him. It were sacrilege for superiours to challenge it, and Idolatrie for inferiours to yeeld it.
And as faith and affiance in God are themselves very acceptable to him, so do they make, through Christ, all our other services accepted of him.
And as faith and affiance in God are themselues very acceptable to him, so doe they make, through Christ, all our other seruices accepted of him.
Secondly, he that is so well pleased with the faith of his servants, is no less ready to recompense their faithful service, and that in such bountiful manner, as that they can wish for no more, nor could possibly have hoped for so much: for his gifts are agreeable to his own infinite munificence, and not according to mans narrow comprehension. All noisome things shall undoubtedly be removed from them, and they delivered from the danger thereof. Gods wrath is mitigated, his judgements restrained, his curses abolished, and the nature of his threatenings altogether altered. And what then car