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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15343	A short, yet sound commentarie; written on that woorthie worke called; the Prouerbes of Salomon and now published for the profite of Gods people.	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1589 (1589)	STC 25627; ESTC S119970	239,133	222

foorth to behold the light of the Sunne and other some haue added to the weakenes of their sexe not watchfulnes against sinne as their duetie required but laied the raines of their seuerall iniquities and manifold inticements to euill in their owne neckes and many haue misused their places of honor and credit to all licentiousnes of the flesh and carelesnes of God and of the waies of his worship and so consequently of eternal saluation from all which inconueniences and mischiefes the Lord hath mercifullie kept you in euerie condition of life wherein he hath been pleased to place you me thinketh you haue wherein to reioyce and that not onlie so much in the things themselues freelie and plentifullie bestowed vpon you as in the happie continuance and mightie encrease of these his goodnesses in you you also hauing receiued grace from God to beautifie them with an vnblameable holy conuersation By meanes whereof it is come to passe that as you are much beloued at home in the midst of Gods saincts and faithfull seruants here and these not onlie common professors but many worthie ministers for kindnes towards whom and particularlie towards my selfe I doo humblie here in all our names thanke GOD and you as his gracious instrument so you are made truely famous abroad in forraine Churches and countries highly reuerenced of many worthie men there indued doubtles with singular graces for Gods glory and the building vp of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts But what meane I to enter into this broad field of your Christian commendation where breath would rather faile me and time I am sure with abilitie to wade into it as I should than matter any manner of way bee wanting Giue me leaue therefore good Madame I beseech you to desist from your praise which I knowe you doo not willingly heare though it be deserued as on your part and though perhaps it might bee as a quicke spurre in the dull sides of others to prouoke them to good things and to turne my speach to exhortation rather and comfort The course that you are entered into and the race that now you haue a long time runne in is holie and honorable Hold on therfore in the same chearefullie notwithstanding the manifold hinderances that within and without bee cast in your way to turne you aside if it might be and bee not wearie of well doing at any hand for as you knowe that your profession requireth it so God hath promised that the time wil come wherein you shall reape as the saincts of God haue done before you if you faint not Let the assured faithfulnes and infinite power of him that hath in his word made you large promises be a pricke vnto you herein And forasmuch as he hath giuen you grace to begin well and to hold on hetherto doubt not but he that hath both the will and the deed in his owne hands to bestowe them where and as it pleaseth him will make perfect in you euery good worke euen till the day of Iesus Christ Is it possible that that incorruptible crowne of eternall glorie which in his onely beloued he hath prepared for you should fade away Vpon these things I beseech you hauing cast away worldly cares fixe cōtinuallie the eye of your faith that you may end your old yeeres in the Lords peace and be indeed gathered vnto your fathers comfortablie saying as that holie Apostle old Paule saied I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith from henceforth there is laied vp for me the crowne of righteousnes which the Lord the righteous Iudge shall giue me at that day and not to me onely but vnto all them also that loue his appearing Your learned father your honorable husband your louing brother your deare sisters some of them and if I bee not deceiued some also of your owne holie seede all of them hauing yeelded vp their spirites in the faith and feare of GOD are I doubt not gone thether before you and why should you your selfe or any other thinke that you should be sundred from them As for the lengthning of your life aboue many before reckoned surely God hath done it for his owne glorie and the good of his Church into which also you being religiouslie gathered as a sound member thereof you haue euen in that an assured testimonie giuen vnto you that warfaring here with his saincts as you doo against sinne the world and the diuell you shall in good time through him that hath loued you and washed you in his bloud become more than a conquerour and eternallie triumph together with them and the rest in heauen Till which time as I rest resolued that God the author and perfecter of euery good thing in all his will not withdrawe his gracious hand from you in any grace speciallie spirituall and heauenlie so I am certainlie perswaded that manie such as are led by his spirit know you in Christ Iesus and loue you in the trueth will not GOD ayding them neglect any duetie either outward or inward that possiblie they can performe to further that worke Amongst whom I though the least and most vnworthie as in respect of my selfe yet tied thereto by the duetie of my profession from God and bound to it by sundrie fauours receiued from you will in my poore measure striue to do though not so much as others neither yet so much as I owe which I freelie acknowledge as being priuie to mine owne disabilitie and insufficiencie that way and not vtterlie vnacquainted with other mens fulnes and vpheaped store yet what God hath or shal be pleased to enable me to accomplish Which that your good Ladiship may be the better assured of I am bold now to present vnto you and to publish vnder your name some short notes and meditations of mine long since written for the dearest friend I had in the world vppon that worthie booke of Salomons Prouerbes What it is I leaue to you and the Church of GOD to iudge of and yet this much I hope I may without pride protest that though it bee not exquisite like vnto the worthie workes of manie Bezaleels in our age yet it is sound and though it bee not finelie polished either in fitnes of wordes or great store of arte yet the trueth it is I hope and neuer a whit the more to be misliked because it is naked and plaine but the rather to be imbraced of Gods people who I hope will shewe me this fauour that as they wil not reiect any good thing in it for any euil that may be found or suspected to be therin neither yet admit any euil for the goods sake but in a discerning spirit refuse the one and receiue the other so they will assist me with their praiers to God for the increase of any good thing that is within me to Gods glorie and the benefite of his people and in much loue according to the spirit of