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A20547	A plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes of Salomon	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 6957; ESTC S109740	155,503	198

be talkatiue and exceede too farre in multiplying of words What though it be true that we say and so we know and are able to proue it Doth euery trueth befit euery time Should all men alwaies bee speaking all that they know It would bee a great meanes to hinder the increase of knowledge Some be talking when they haue more neede to heare some be teaching when they haue more neede to learne and many wrong themselues and them that are present in not giuing place to others that are more sufficient and better able to speake So did not Elihu he preferred his elders though not his betters before himselfe Hee would not open his mouth before his turne came and that he saw Iob and his three friends to Iob. 34. 4. 5. c. swerue out of the way on both hands Reproofe of those that destinate all their speehes and that in the ministerie of the Gospell to the setting forth of their owne praises It may truely be said of many that they preach not Christ so much as themselues contrarie to the faithfulnesse of Paul who preached not himselfe but the Lord Iesus Christ Their chiefe labour is not to win glory to God and men to saluation but credit to themselues and men to the admiration of their gifts and learning This they principallie aime at that all may be affected with their elocution that al may see the fruit of their wits that al may discerne of their skill in the tongues that al may witnes their paines in reading that all may wonder at their depth of iudgement If those be things that their hearts doe chiefly desire wee must conclude of them that their hearts doe publish foolishnes Verse 24. The hand of the diligent shall beare rule but the deceitfull shall be vnder tribute THe hand of the diligent that is diligent men who vse their hands or other members of their bodies or else their minds to some honest and profitable trauell according to their calling shall beare rule and attaine to some good place of estimation But idle persons whom want and other occasions draw to deceitfull courses to shift for themselues as wee haue shewed in the fourth verse of the tenth chapter shall be made vnderlings and brought into subiection and seruilitie Doct. They which are laborious and faithfull in meane places doe take the way to rise to an higher degree True it is that diuers attaine not to such greatnesse as others doe and yet be no lesse diligent then others are but the Lord maketh their inferioritie a step towards their heauenly aduancement and they are not without estimation in that low estate and God seeth their fruite to bee better and their comfort to bee more there than if they were raised vp to higher preferment Otherwise they that serue God in what place soeuer are sure to grow greater The Scripture proposeth examples hereof and sheweth how the point hath been verified in former ages Iacob at the first set himselfe to seruice and was at the commandement of an other man but at the last being painful and true he was able to keep seruants himselfe and other men were at his commandement Ioseph when hee came into Aegypt was bought and sold as a poore bondman but being faithfull in euery place that hee came into hee was promoted in euery place that hee came into When hee was a seruant when hee was a prisoner and especiallie when he was Prince Dauid had once the charge of a flocke of sheepe and thereof was not a little heedefull but afterwards hee had the leading of an armie of men and lastlie was exalted to the throne of a glorious kingdome Reasons 1 First promotion is from the Lord and hee setteth vp and putteth downe according to his owne will And therefore when he hath fitted men to authoritie by humbling them with labour he assigneth their places wherein they shall stand and by his providence preferreth them to the same some to bee Magistrates some to be Captaines some to be Ministers some to be Maisters some to bee Stewards some to haue one office and some another Secondly the hand of the diligent maketh rich and riches cause them that are wise and honest to be put into authoritie and imployed in the townes and places wherein they dwell or at least they grow to be housekeepers and beare rule in their owne families Thirdly painefulnesse with wisedome and faithfulnesse doth cause great personages to looke after them They entertaine them into seruice they put them in trust with their affaires they giue countenance vnto them and they many times are meanes of their rising and preferment And in this sense is that saying Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings and standeth not before the base sort Prou. 22. 29. Vse Reproofe of their follie that are ashamed and disdaine to take any paines vnlesse it be in seruing of sinne and lust and thereto they make themselues slaues and drudges And what is it that meaneth them to such nicenesse that they will not voutchsafe to put their hands to any worke or set their mindes to seeke for knowledge whereby they may bee fit for some good profession The feare of contempt the doubt that they shall bee little regarded if they applied themselues to such a base kinde of life It is not according to their birth and bringing vp to spend their time in labour or studie it will bee a hinderance to their preferment that they looke for But will they thus contrarie the word of God and crosse the trueth of his holy spirit Will they say that diligence doth make men contemptible when he saith the diligent hand shall beare rule will they say that idlenes doth bring men to promotion when he saith that the idle shall be vnder tribute He will as well crosse and contrarie them in their state and desires and make them feele his words to be true Who seeth not what beggerie and want and miserie they cast themselues into Are they not driuen to sell away and depart with that inheritance and patrimonie which their parents haue left them Are they not compelled to borrow and shift and to sincke deepely into debt And it is a true prouerbe that the borrower is seruant to the man that lendeth For further vse of this Prou. 22. 7. point see the fourth verse of the tenth chapter in the application of the second doctrine Verse 25. Heauines in the heart of a man doth bring it downe but a good word reioyceth it HEauines of heart that is such sorrowes or feares as are not godly and effects of faith but proceeding from infidelity or carnall respects especially being excessiue doth bring down the heart not humbling it kindely so as pride may be taken away but either filling it with discouragement or distemper against which the Prophet wrestled with sundry conflicts Why art thou cast down my soule and art vnquiet or tumultuous within me Psal 42. 5. Now withall

euerlasting mercie there hee will Psalm 2. 5. speake vnto them in anger and for want of repentance will punish them eternally with iustice Secondly the fearefull iudgement of God vpon their hearts that they should not see how they were illuded in their expectation vntill their death when the case is remedilesse If the vanitie of their hope were discouered to them before they might cast it off sooner and lay a new foundation of a better whereas resting still vpon the stabilitie of that it breaketh when it cannot be repaired and they fall when they can neuer rise againe If the fiue Matth. 25. foolish Virgins had found their want of oile before the bridegrome was comming they might in time haue prouided themselues and be readie to enter with him to the wedding before the dore was shut If they which presumed so much of Christ his acquaintance because they had eaten drunk in his company and Luk. 13. 26 27. heard him preach amongst them had knowne before hand what small account hee would haue made of them they might haue vsed better meanes whiles time serued to grow into his fauour Thirdly the prerogatiue and priuiledge of Gods people would be much infringed if wicked men should haue hope with them in the life to come for therein standeth the contrarietie between them The wicked saith the Scripture shall bee cast away for his lewdnes but the righteous hath hope at his death Prou. 14. 32. For the present it commeth to passe commonly that bad men are full and good men are hungrie the one sort doe laugh and the other waile and weepe as our Sauiour testifieth Luk. 6. 25. and therefore hereafter their conditions shall bee changed on both sides the pleasure of the one shall bee turned into paine and the sorrowes of the other into endlesse comforts As it is said by the Apostle concerning the godlie that if in this life onely they had hope they were of all most miserable so it may be spoken touching the godlesse that if in the life to come also they had hope they were of all men most happie Vse 1 Reproofe of their folly which liue in hope that the time of their death will beget them hope and not destroy it They know that now they are sinfull persons without all grace and goodnes but they trust that then they shall be conuerted and brought in a moment to repentance They know that now they stand in state of damnation and if they should presently come to iudgement they must needes perish but they trust at the last gaspe to call vpon God for mercie and thereby get pardon for all their sinnes and so their soules shall bee saued As though death and the pangs thereof were appointed for the preferment of Gods vngodly enemies They haue bestowed themselues in the seruice of sinne and spent their daies in rebellion against the Lord and doe they looke for reward thereof to bee crowned with glory Are theeues and robbers are cutpurses and other malefactours therefore bound ouer to the Assises that they may bee put in commission and called vp to the bench Instruction to confirme our hope by putting our soules out of all perill of perishing afore our death or sicknes or any other danger least our euidence be to seek when our cause is to be tried Let euery one of vs vpon apparance of election by faith and the fruits of sanctification be able to say as trulie though not with as much feeling of assurance as the Apostle did I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things Rom. 8. 38. present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall separate vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus This will make our life truely prosperous and profitable and our death blessed and comfortable and our state in the world to come immortall and glorious Consolation to such as feare God that death will deliuer them from the hopes and the liues of their sinfull enemies Away must their soules goe and downe must their carkasses and where then are their purposes and what becomes of their power Though they were as mightie as Leuiathan and as mischieuous as dragons yet when they bee dead as die they must what cause hath any man to be afraid of them Achab minded great matters against Micaiah at his returne in peace from Ramoth Gilead 1. King 22. but God minded to preserue Micaiah by defeating Achab of a peaceable returne from thence Let Hezechiah and all his people saith Zanecherib trust to it that I will speede them at my next comming to Ierusalem but God had appointed that hee should come no more that way but be drawne by the snowte like a fish Isai 36. 12. and 37. 29. or led with a bridle like a beast to the shambles and slaughter at Nineue The Egyptians were resolued to pursue Israel vntill they ouertooke them and to put them to the sword when they caught them and to take the spoile of their goods when they had slaine them but the waters were first to pursue themselues and death to ouertake them and the sea to haue the spoile of their bodies and hell to make a pray of their soules Verse 8. The iust escapeth out of trouble and the wicked shall come in his steed GOds fauour and goodnes doth not free his seruants from afflictions but deliuereth them out of afflictions Whereinto hee casteth the wicked though they be not alwaies of the same kind with those which the godly suffer but worse and more durable and such as are mixed with Gods wrath and poisoned with the sting of their owne euill conscience Doct. Though the afflictions of good men seeme sharpe and grieuous yet they are not perpetuall Before euer God bring his into troubles hee appointeth how they shal be preserued in them and passe thorough them and get out of them He doth as well foresee their arriuall as their launching forth and the end of the boysterous stormes which they must indure aswell as the beginning and entrance thereof Many Psalm 34. 19. or great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all Neither number nor grieuousnesse nor continuance of crosses nor power of persecutors nor any other impediment can hinder his hand from helping his distressed seruants Reasons First they will keepe no silence when they bee in tribulation they will cry vnto God and bemone their case vnto him that hee may take their cause into his hands Neither is it any waywardnesse in them but wisedome and their bounden duty so to doe for he calleth them vnto him and commaundeth them to make their complaint Call vpon me saith hee in the day of trouble so will I deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal 50. 15. Secondly all Gods people are petitioners for euery one and euery one for all so that no member of Iesus Christ wanteth