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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 hath reserved it as a royalty to himself, not communicable to any creature, to be the searcher of the hart, according as Solomon in his prayer acknowledgeth, saying, Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men. That is an 1office depending upon his omniscious nature. None is able to execute it, but he that knoweth all things.
Reason 1 First, the Lord hath reserued it as a royaltie to himselfe, not communicable to any creature, to be the searcher of the hart, according as Salomon in his praier acknowledgeth, saying, Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men. That is an 1office depending vpon his omniscious nature. None is able to execute it, but he that knoweth all things.
Secondly, the soul is a spirit, and cannot be sounded and sanctified by any, but by him that hath a spiritual power, and is the Lord and maker of spirits.
Secondly, the soule is a spirit, and cannot be sounded and sanctified by any, but by him that hath a spirituall power, and is the Lord and maker of spirits.
Use 1 Instruction, to take his testimony for the state of our souls, and not to lean merely upon the opinion of men. They that be good, may flatter us; and they that be evil, may mistake us: but in him is neither dissimulation nor error. The Scribes and Pharisees were commended of the multitude; and Paul and Jeremiah were condemned of the multitude: and yet God condemned the Scribes and Pharisees, and he commended Paul and Jeremiah. But why did the Lord disallow or approve contrary to the likings or censures of the people? Our Saviour yieldeth a reason of it, saying to the Pharisees, Ye are they which justify your selves before men: but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.