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Doct. 3 God maketh his judgements suitable to our sins.

Doct. 3 God maketh his iudgements sutable to our sinnes.

David was lifted up, ¹because he had so many strong and valiant men: therefore doth God lessen the number of them. So (Joel, 1.5.) it is said, Weep & howl ye drinkers of wine, for the new wine shall be pulled from your mouth. ⟨p. 51⟩This was a most just correction, that they should be punished with scarcity of drink, seeing they had before time so wretchedly abused the same. In like sort doth the Lord meet with proud men, turning their glory into shame, as we may observe in Tyre. Isa. 23.8. where the question is made, ²Who hath decreed this against Tyre (that crowneth men,) whose Merchants are Princes? whose Chapmen are the Nobles of the world? And the answer is made, vers. 9. The Lord of Hosts hath decreed this, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring to contempt all them that be glorious in the earth. So for covetous men, they are many times brought to beggary, according to that of the wise man, He that maketh hast to be rich, ³shall surely come to poverty. Albeit they use wonderful diligence, and be exceeding painful, and have an excellent capacity, and a deep reach for worldly things, & seem to want nothing that may make them prosper, yet because God is displeased with them, he brings them down, both stripping them of their wealth, which they most affected; and plaguing them with poverty, which they most detested.