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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

for redresse of wrongs at his hands Herod thought that it would be too late for all the friends which Peter had to minister helpe vnto him when hee had clapt him vp in so sure a prison But hee remembred not how swift the godly be to prayer and how soone a prayer can come to God and in what readines God hath his Angels and what speede an Angell can make to succour them that are in danger Yet this is not the greatest comfort of Gods afflicted seruants but this that the Lord Iesus Christ is infinitely more righteous and mercifull than any man or all men possiblie can be and he will vndertake their cause and either minister help to their state or grace to their soules to beare their troubles till the fittest time of freedome from them He will preserue them from sinne and Satan which lie in waite for their eternall destruction The spirit of God is large in one of the Psalmes in setting foorth the tender care which he hath of his people He shall deliuer the poore when he crieth the needie also and him that hath no helpe He shall be mercifull to the poore and needie and shall preserue the soules of the poore He shall redeeme their soules from deceit and violence and deare shall their blood be in his sight Psal 72. 12. 13. 14. Verse 7. God ouerthroweth the wicked and they are not but the house of the righteous shall stand VVHen the state of the vngodly which are not Gods chosen changeth from prosperitie to aduersitie it seldome staieth till they be vtterly destroyed both themselues their houses This word are not signifieth a slaughter and killing as it is spoken of the murdering of the infants by Herod Mat. 2. 18. Ier. 31. 15. But here is more vnderstood than the losse of naturall life and that is the perdition of soule and bodie And yet not the extinction of either for the soule shall neuer vanish away nor the bodie for euer they shall not finde so much mercie at Gods hands Their being shall not cease but their comfortable and well being They shall be euerlasting euerlastinglie to beare the burden of Gods wrath and to suffer the vnsufferable torment of death and damnation But the house of the righteous that is he and those things which appertaine vnto him shall bee preserued from being ouerthrowne to ruine Doct. They that will not keepe themselues from wickednesie cannot keepe themselues from desolation They may rise but not stand for vnlesse they fall to repentance they shall be made to fall to destruction They may grow great but for a small time for they will soone bee brought to nothing The prophet thought too well of their state at the first as though they had bin in better case then any other men but he conceiued as hardly of it at the last when he had seene their end in the sanctuarie and deemed them of all to bee most miserable Surelie saith he to the Lord thou hast set them in slipperie places and castest Psal 73. 18. 19 them downe into desolation How suddenlie are they destroyed perished and horriblie consumed The Scriptures flow with testimonies and similies to declare both the certaintie and suddennesse and grieuousnesse of their decay as the withering of plants the putting out of lights the vanity of dreames the vanishing of smoake and many others to the like purpose Reasons 1 First they haue all the threatnings of God against them and euery threatning sendeth forth many curses and euery curse bringeth many plagues Secondly their owne deserts which in respect of any creature are infinite doe draw vpon them iudgements and miseries that are in explicable Thirdly the loue and trueth of God to his owne seruants will not permit a perpetuall prosperitie to his enemies By this hee perswadeth them not to faint in their owne afflictions because a reward remaineth for them and their end will be peace By this he perswadeth them not to fret at wicked mens successes because Psal 37. 38. there remaine punishments for them their end is to be cut off Vse 1 Admonition to sinfull men to tender their loue more that pitie them and desire that their case may be better If others tremble at their fall that is comming which yet neither feele the paine nor be in the perill thereof is it wisedome for them to cast off all care of themselues and onely picke quarrels against them that seeke their safetie When their wound is incurable they will wish that they had better regarded the plaister and the hand that applied it When the disease is remedilesse they will rue the reiection of the medicine and physition When hell shall haue them in hold they will bewaile the refusall of their friendship that would haue directed them to heauen It was good counsell of Philip and well followed of Nathaniel when hee perswaded him to come Ioh. 1. 46. and see whether Iesus were not the Christ And it was an indulgence of Christ to Thomas to helpe his faith in his resurrection Ioh. 20. 27. by the senses of sight and feeling but for matters of punishment and damnation it is good to goe from them and not to come at them to heare Gods testimonie and not to see it fulfilled vpon themselues to beleeue the trueth of that which is spoken and not to feele it by their owne experience Consolation that sinfull men shall not alwaies be molesters of the godly because they shall not alwaies be They shall not continually ouershadow the faithfull because they shall not stand continually Though their shew bee great now and terrible to Gods people yet their change will bee greater and fearefull to themselues He will speedilie ouerturne them and all their power of hurting shall be taken from them Now their rootes are low their toppes aloft and braunches broad and thereby ouer-droppe all that is vnder them then must their toppes come downe and rootes rise vp and all their braunches wither Now they are vessels that are full of power and wealth and malice but then must bee there a transposition the bottome must bee vpward and the brimmes must bee downeward and all their fulnesse be shed on the ground like water The ground of this comfort is neither vaine nor weake for God himselfe doth vrge it as a forcible reason to confirme the hearts of his people Feare thou not saith hee for I am with thee bee not affraide for I am thy God Behold all they that prouoke thee shall bee ashamed and confounded they shall be as nothing and they that striue with thee shall perish Thou shalt seeke them and shalt not finde them to wit the men of thy strife for they shall be as nothing and the men that warre against thee as a thing of nought Isai 41. 11. 12. For the firmenes of the righteous man and of his house see chapter the tenth vers 2. 25. Verse 8. A man shall bee commended according to his wisedome but