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A95065	An exposition with practicall observations upon the three first chapters of the proverbs: grammaticall rhetoricall, logicall, and theologicall. As they were delivered in severall expository lectures at Christ-church in Canterbury. / By Francis Taylor, B. in D.	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing T273; Thomason E847_1; ESTC R207317	415,752	563

to it and power over it to dispose of it Most interpreters understand it of giving to the poor and trouble themselves much to know how the poor are owners of other mens goods An hard phrase and not to be found in Scripture in this sense which usually calls it giving freely and Almes and poor men are taught to ask for mercy not to demand it as due And they who make them owners of other mens goods open a great gap to them to take it by foul means if they cannot have it by intreaty and to say May I not take mine own goods where I find them what should hinder Some say poor men have an interest in other mens goods because of their goods because of their wants others that they have it by nature being men as we are others because God bids us relieve them But these titles will hardly make them to be masters of what is not theirs The interpreters run this way because the next Verse mentions giving to the poor But as this interpretation answers not well to the Hebrew words so it confounds two duties paying debts in this verse and giving to the poor in the next Neither will it serve to say This Verse requires giving and the next doing it speedily for the word of not withholding in this Verse requires speedy payment especially joyned to the words following when it is in the power of thine hand to do it I conclude therfore that paying of debts to creditors or labourers is here meant who ought to have what others injuriously keep from them And this is a work of justice not of mercy For the word see on Chap. 1.17 on the word Bird. Heb. Master of a wing When it is in the power of thine hand to do it When thou art able to pay it For if God lay losses and poverty on a man hee cannot pay his debts then neither is it his sin if his losses came not by his own negligence Others understand it when thou hast power to keep it away from him Do not cosen thy creditour though thou couldst do it by force or fraud The hand in the Heb. is used 1. For the member of the body so called The one put out his hand Gen. 38.28 2. For power and strength for the hand is used in strong actions Whom God had delivered from under the hand of the Egyptians Exod. 18.9 3. Help and assistance which is often afforded by the hand Their hand also is with David 1 Sam. 22.17 4. A blow or plague inflicted by the hand My stroke Heb. hand is heavier then my groning Job 23.2 5. A place Thou shalt have a place also without the camp Deut. 23.12 6. The man himself whose hand it is He leaneth on my hand 2 King 5.18 So here In the power of thine hand that is in thy power To do it The word signifies 1. To do a thing What hast thoudone 2. To make a thing God saw every thing that he had made Gen. 1.31 3. To bring forth The Earth brought forth by handfulls Gen. 41.47 4. To prepare or dresse Hee hasted to dresse it Gen. 18.7 5. To advance or make great It is the Lord that advanced Moses 1 Sam. 12.6 6. To Get. The soules that they had gotten in Haran Gen. 12. 5. Here it is is taken in the first sense for doing Figures Hand For the man A figure of the part for the whole Note 1. An Act forbidden Withhold not 2. The Object Good 3. The subject From them to whom it is due 4. The Adjunct of time When it it in the power of thine hand to do it 1. Doct. Outward comforts are good in themselves It is reckoned as a great favour for man to have dominion over the creatures Thou madst him to have dominion over the works of thine hands Psal 8.6 Sure it is then a blessing And Psalns 104. begins and ends with praising God for outward provisions This is best proved by particulars Aske a hungry man if meat be a blessing He will tell you it is otherwise he must die Ask a thirsty man if drink be a blessing He will say he must choak else So for clothing cattle fruits of the earth and of trees Use To blame those that by abuse of these comforts turn blessings into curses so doth the glutton and the drunkard It is a sad thing for a man to go to hell for those comforts which he may have and go to heaven 2. These outward comforts may be lent and convayed from one man to another lending is a Christian dutie as well as giving The righteous man is ever mercifull and lendeth Psal 37.26 Do good and lend Luke 6.35 So is trading exchange buying and selling lawfull Abraham bought a field and the trees of it Gen. 23.17 The father of the faithfull thought it lawfull and knew how to drive a bargain Reas 1. Because we may have something to spare that other 〈◊〉 may need and they may have somewhat we may need which may be communicated from one to another without losse And then both humanity and communion of Saints teach us to communicate to others 2. Men may want that at present which afterwards they may repay or requite and need not to receive of gift Use It teacheth us a willingnesse to lend to others and to trade with others the time may come we may need to borrow of them or trade with them so we may help both them and our selves Doct. 3. Conscience is to be made of paying debts and restoring things to the right owners If a man borrow ought of his neighbour and it be hurt or die the owner thereof being not with it he shall surely make it good Exod. 22.14 Render to all their dues Owe nothing to any man but to love one another Rom. 13.7.8 Reas 1. Because nature teacheth that debts must be paid Why do we look for dutie from children or servants but because it is a debt 2. Because else we prejudice others with whom we have to doe and expose them to want who have by trading or lending relieved our wants which is to doe evill for good Use It serves to ery out against unconscionable men that make no conscience of paying debts it will stick as a spot upon our religion many among the Turks are said to be more just in this particular I have heard a Turky merchant of good Note say that when he was to come away from Constantinople some of the Turks came to him not sent for to pay their debts And a Morocco Merchant affiming that when the King died there who traded much with the English Merchants the Queen sent for them to Court and paid them every penny But especially this should trouble their consciences who though rich and able yet detain poor labourers wages they would be loth to be so dealt withall themselves if they were in want Behold the cry of the labourers which have reap●d down your fields which is of you kept back by

They were once in much danger now they are more free 4. Doct. Wisdome is a great antidote and preservative against evill When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou walkest it shall talk with thee ch 6.32 Wisdome may keep thee from the strange woman chap. 7.5 Reason 1. Because wisdome shews the right end we should aim at the right means to attain that end and the fittest time to use those means And all these help to preserve us from sin judgement evill practises from dangers corporal spiritual and from hell it self 2. It teaches a man how to make use of all times of time past else you lose your life of time present else ye live ill of time to come else ye lie open to all dangers Whoso keepeth the commandement shal feel no evill thing and a wise mans heart discerneth both time and judgement Because to every purpose there is time and judgement therefore the misery of man is great upon him Eccl. 8.5 6. Vse Make use of this wisdome in carefull watchfulnesse for your owne preservation Ye are encompassed with a thousand dangers Ye are naturally carelesse watchfulnesse will keep ye out of them Thinking often of perill is the way to prevent perill Other virtues are armed souldiers in the field ready to fight for the souls safety Wisdome is the Watchman or Sentinel of the soul to foretell danger Salazar Where wisdome enters not into the heart there are no saving thoughts nor counsels whereby men may be safe for the inconstancy of mans mind is wonderful and the blindnesse and frailty of it great Men think more frequently of vain and pernicious things then of honest and godly unlesse wisdome be present which may supply hearty and heavenly thoughts which may shut up the entrance against our enemy as follows in the next vers To deliver thee from the way of the evill man 5. Doct. Preservation from sinfull wayes is a great benefit and blessing So it is promised here as a choyce mercy I withheld thee from sinning against me therefore suffered I not thee to touch her Gen. 20.6 It was a great mercy of God to keep Joseph from adultery Gen. 39.10 David found not so much favour from God 2 Sam. 11. Tibi deputo peccata quae non feci To thee O Lord I impute it that I have not committed such and such sins Aug. Reason 1. In regard of good mens account who set a great price upon it and pray earnestly for it So doth David Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the dore of my lips Incline not my heart to any evill thing to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties Ps 140.4 2. In regard of evils prevented as Gods frowns pangs of conscience diseases troubles hell 3. In regard of the cost of recovery It cost Christ his heart blood to recover Gods favour to sinners It will cost us many prayers and tears as it did David Psal 51. 4. In regard of the scandall of our sins whereby others may be drawn to hell and which all our following good works will not wipe off Vse Let us blesse God if we see others fall into grosse sins and our selves kept from them as we would do if all the houses about us were infected and ours kept free Rahab escaped when Jericho was destroyed An antidote is better then a cure It saves much pain both of disease and healing Men must be made more sick ere they be healed It is no small matter of little importance that is here promised but safety and rest which all the world cannot give us though it stood armed round about us to defend us Then give God great praise for it 6. Doct. There is need of understanding and care to keep us from evill I said I will take heed to my wayes Psal 39.1 Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee Psal 119.11 Reason 1. There is need of much understanding Else we may think that we do very well when we do very ill I verily thought saith Paul with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth Act. 26.9 2. There is need of great care else knowledge is in vain Knowing men will sin negligently or wilfully if care be wanting Vse Provide these two wings still and care to flee from evill A watch-man must both wake and watch So must we spiritually if we will scape sin Vers 12. To deliver thee from the way of the evill man from the man that speaketh froward things Here begins the deliverance from dangers that may come to us by evill mens society The benefit is propounded in the beginning of this vers The evill mans way from which he is to be delivered is set out by divers effects 1. In his words in the end of this vers 2. In his works v. 13. 3. In his affections v. 14. 4. In his obstinacy v. 15. For the words To deliver thee The Heb. word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies 1. To spoyl a man or take his goods from him All the riches that God hath taken from our Father Gen. 31.16 2. To take away a man from trouble or deliver him And delivered our houses Exod. 12.27 So here From. So 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is translated From the hand of all his enemies and from the band of Saul Psal 18. in the title Sometimes it is out of He hath delivered me out of all trouble Psal 54.7 Here it may be understood either way Wisdome is good to deliver men from ill wayes that they fall not into them and to deliver them out of them when they are faln into them to keep them out or bring them out But it is best to understand it in the first sense as it is translated For it is a greater mercy to be kept out of ill wayes then to be brought out of them As it is a greater favour to be kept in health then to be healed It agrees also best with the scope of the place which is to keep young men from entring into evill wayes The way See on ch 1.15 It signifies their wicked courses of life which as a wrong way leads to a bad end Wisdome will keep us from following bad example and delighting in the company of bad men and so getting hurt by them From walking in their way with them or after them From joyning with them in sin or doing the like sins Of the evill man that is of evill men The singular for the plurall as is expressed v. 13. Who leave the wayes of uprightnesse or of evill that is from all evill wayes or from the evill way that is from evill courses As appears by what follows by way of explanation in the words following For the word see on ch 1.16 From the man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies 1. A man by kind opposed to a beast