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…

Reason 1 First, they are void of sound judgement, and senseless of their own miserable estate, and therefore think all instructions needless; as a frantic patient, or one past feeling of pain, doth see no cause of taking physic.

Reason 1 First, they are void of sound iudgement, and senslesse of their owne miserable estate, and therefore thinke all instructions needlesse; as a phrenticke patient, or one past feeling of paine, doth see no cause of taking physicke.

Secondly, they are void of Christian love, and given to uncharitable judging, and therefore interpret all that is spoken to them in the worst sense, and impute it to the malice of him that reproveth them; as though every admonition were given as a sentence of condemnation.

Secondly, they are void of Christian loue, and giuen to vncharitable iudging, and therefore interpret all that is spoken to them in the worst sense, and impute it to the malice of him that reprooueth them; as though euery admonition were giuen as a sentence of condemnation.

Thirdly, they are void of humility, and have themselves in high admiration, and therefore take it for a great disgrace to be told their duty, as though they were ignorant; and especially to be rebuked for their faults as if they were offenders.

Thirdly, they are void of humilitie, and haue themselues in high admiration, and therefore take it for a great disgrace to be told their dutie, as though they were ignorant; and especially to bee rebuked for their faults as if they were offenders.