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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

Within a little space I am in all euill in the midst of the congregation and assemblie Reproofe of them that vndertake the defence of subtill sinne that offer themselues to be compurgatours for her if she say that she is honest and vpright they will sweare they thinke it true What euill is there of Idolatrie superstition swearing Sabbath-breaking crueltie wantonnes yea abominable whoredome pride and riot but it shall haue proctors to pleade for it and giue countenance to it And most commonly they are the men that of all others euery way for soule and bodie for substance and credit haue been most plagued by her Her craftines hath so inchanted them that by her vsage she hath gotten their harts for euer Their wits their tongues their pennes their practise of life and all shall be altogether for her against God and his word against all godly men against all ciuill men against their owne estimation and state comfort and saluation Doct. 2 God is a sure paimaster to all that labour faithfully in his seruice Though their strength bee not great nor their worke very much yet if their desires be sound and their endeuours vpright their recompence will also bee certaine The Prophet Azariah knew that he spake aswell to posteritie as to those of his owne age and as truly to Gods people as to King Asa and his people Be strong and let not your hands be faint for your worke shall haue a 2. Chro. 15. 17. reward Reasons 1 First the couenant is plaine and without all doubtfulnes there is no equiuocation in it there is no mentall reseruation to peruert the meaning of it Secondly the couenant maker is absolutely perfect and euery way all sufficient His wisedome foreseeth what things are fit to promise his truth doth binde him to doe all that is promised his mercie doth moue him to doe more than he promiseth and his power doth serue him to performe whatsoeuer his wisedome seeth meete his truth hath vndertaken or his mercie willeth vnto his seruants Vse 1 Instigation to shew all diligence in doing good and let no time slip away without some fruitfull exercise Of men some hire their workfolks by the yeere some by the half yeere some by the moneth some by the week and some by the day but God giueth vs wages for euery minutes worke for euery moments worke for euery gracious speech for euery holy thought for imployment in our beds for patience in our sicknes for good vsage of recreations there is no season no state nor place wherein a good man may not be well occupied for the increase of his wages The same reason doth S. Paul vse to incite the Corinthians and all other godly Christians to bee very laborious and painfull in all good seruices continually seeing there will be a resurrection and a retribution to euery man according to their waies Therefore my beloued brethren saith he be ye stedfast vnmoueable abundant alway 1. Cor. 15. 58. in the worke of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord. Incouragement to patience though we seeme not to haue present pay for our obedience Our wages is in a sure hand and will not faile to be yeelded vnto vs when our neede requireth it or any vse may bee made of it for our best aduantage Our wages is better than ordinarie the whole crop that we sow is giuen vs for our labour and therefore let vs not be too hastie to reape it before it bee readie Good Farmers indeede pay the ploughmen sooner than the corne is ripe but cheaper thā the corne is worth whereas God bestoweth freely vpon his labourers all that they haue sowen it is their owne and therefore let them tarrie till haruest and they shall finde their hire will farre surmount their trauels This is the ground of the Apostles perswasion to the Galathians Let vs not be wearie of well doing for in due season we shall reape if we faint not Gal. 6. 9. Verse 19. So righteousnesse leadeth to life and he that followeth euill seeketh his owne death THis verse is inferred vpon the former by way of explication to shew what he meant by the deceiueable worke of the wicked and the sure wages of the righteous And first he beginneth with the latter according to the manner of the Hebrewes declaring that life vnderstanding thereby immortalitie and all the blessednes annexed vnto it is that sure reward which all godly men may vndoubtedly expect and destruction both of soule and bodie eternally is the ende whereunto the deceitfull worke will bring wicked men which do so much deceiue themselues by a greedie desire of satisfying their sinfull lusts Doct. 1 The Lord hath not onely appointed a certaine reward but a precious for his seruants Nothing can be better then such a happie life and such a happie life as he deemeth nothing to good for them to enioy Hereof the Apostle speaketh to the Romans The wages of sinne is death but the gift of God is euerlasting life through Iesus Christ. Rom. 6. 23. Reasons 1 This is to set forth the bountie and superabundant munificence of God the father that the riches of his loue and goodnes may be magnified aboue all creatures Hee putteth into the hearts and power of sinfull men to giue gold and siluer to giue iewels and treasure to giue lands and liuings to giue titles and dignities to giue crownes and kingdoms but neither men nor Angels could euer giue life to any or keepe their owne by their owne power the liuing Lord and eternall God is he that maketh all his Saints as well in heauen as in earth to liue eternally Secondly the Lord Iesus our Sauiour hath by his dying killed death and bought life and by his resurrection triumphed ouer death and won life for euery one of his members yea he himselfe is the life of his people which beleeue in him who maketh them partakers by an euerlasting communion with him of his owne life He layd it downe for them and tooke it vp againe for them and imparts it vnto them it is as possible for him to perish as them and the whole Deitie as him Thirdly the seed of grace whereby the sonnes of God are regenerate is an immortall seede as S. Peter calleth it and of the nature of the father that begetteth them and therefore they must 1. Pet. 23. needes receiue life and retaine life and neuer after bee depriued of it Fourthly without this life the children of God were in no better case then other creatures For either they should bee subiect to eternall death which is the condition of the wicked reprobats or else be extinct and abolished with a finall dissolution which is the state of vnreasonable beasts Vse 1 Instruction to labour for righteousnesse and preciously to account of it since it procureth so precious a reward to vs and that from the fauour and kindnesse of our gracious God Hee that

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