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Reproof of them that being poor, are yet nothing the Use. less proud, and arrogant, whose haughty minds, and insolencie, cannot be brought down by beggary it self: be it known unto them, that they walk stubbornly against the Lord, as Moses witnesseth, and therefore the Lord will walk stubbornly against ¹them, as himself doeth threaten: let them look for seven plagues more, and seven times greater, until they be either humbled, or destroyed. If they set themselves to wrestle with him, by despising his judgements, he will either give their hearts the fall, by working repentance, and humiliation in them, or their souls and bodies the foil, by executing plagues and damnation upon them.

Reproofe of them that being poore, are yet nothing the Vse. lesse proud, and arrogant, whose haughtie mindes, and insolencie, cannot be brought downe by beggerie it selfe: be it knowne vnto them, that they walke stubbornely against the Lord, as Moses witnesseth, and therefore the Lord will walke stubbornely against ¹them, as himselfe doeth threaten: let them looke for seuen plagues more, and seuen times greater, vntill they be either humbled, or destroyed. If they set themselues to wrestle with him, by despising his iudgements, he will either giue their hearts the fall, by working repentance, and humiliation in them, or their soules and bodies the foyle, by executing plagues and damnation vpon them.

1. 1Levit. 26.Leuit. 26.

Vers. 24. A man that hath friends, ought to show himself friendly, for a friend is nearer then a brother.