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B12458	A plaine and familiar exposition of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon / by Iohn Dod and Robert Cleaver.	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.	1610 (1610)	STC 6965; ESTC S109745	131,853	182

is faithfull and out of his faithfulnesse dooth apply himselfe to be fruitfull shall not neede Pharisaically to publish his vertues to all the towne for Iesus Christ in due time will proclaime the same to all the world and in the meane time cause their goodnesse so to be regarded of them that be good that the lesse praise they seeke the more they shall finde and that reuerence which they neither aimed at nor looked for shall without their suing or seeking be offered vnto them He that is sound in his soule and vpright in his dealing cannot be without honour whosoeuer he be that depraueth him and euery one that is hollow harted and wicked shall beare the shame of his iniquity what pretenses soeuer he maketh of mercy iustice and piety and how many soeuer applaude him whomesoeuer the Lord seeth to be naught he reputeth for naught and will shew to be naught and after a season bring him to naught Vers 7. He which walketh in his vprightnesse is iust and blessed shall his children be after him HE which walketh in his vprightnesse that without dissimulation constantly indeuoureth to obey the will of God labouring to know all that the Lord requireth at his hand and asmuch as he can performe al that he knoweth and that with desire to glorifie him and likewise with hope to be rewarded himselfe is iust perfectly righteous by the merits of Christ without him and righteous by the worke of Gods holy spirit within him And blessed shall his children be after him It shall both goe well with himselfe while he liueth for so much is intended in this sentence though not expresly mentioned and with his posterity also who shall succeede him So doth he vsually blesse his seruants but not at all times some being otherwise recompensed and not in this manner for many Godly men haue no children at all and others leaue such behinde them as proue vnhappy and gracelesse ¶ Whosoeuer is sincere and honest the same man is also righteous Doct. 1 He that exerciseth the behauiour of iustice shall inioy both the comfort and credit of being iust notwithstanding he be not free from faults and infirmities St. Iohn vndertaketh to make this good and layeth it downe as an infallible verity saying Little children let no man deceiue you he that doeth righteousnesse 1. Joh. 3. vers 7. is righteous Likewise Dauid in the Psalmes according as Salomon doth here maketh the iust and faithfull to be all one in that his consolatory acclamation Be gladde yee righteous and Psal 32. v. 11. reioyce in the Lord be ioyfull all yee that are vpright in hart But what can be clearer then Gods owne testimony for Iob and that to the Deuill his most mortall aduersary Hast thou not considered Iob. 1. vers 8. my seruant Iob how none is like him in the earth An vpright and iust man one that feareth God and escheweth euill First there is neuer vprightnesse of hart and behauiour but Reas 1 where sinnes are pardoned and who will take vpon him to charge that man with vnrighteousnesse how great an offendour soeuer he hath formerly beene whose iniquities the Lord hath remitted Secondly as he is fully righteous which hath fulnesse of grace so is euery one more or lesse righteous according to the degrees of his grace so as the smallest measure thereof doth denominate and honour euery one with the title of a iust man if it properly proceede from the holy Ghost and be in truth the fruit of the spirit Thirdly were it not that all the Godly were verily righteous they could haue no place in the mysticall body of Iesus Christ for what correspondency would there be betweene the head which is absolutely iust and the rest of the members vtterly vniust Neither would there be any meete proportion but a direct opposition betweene member and member betweene those which are wholly holy aboue in the heauens and such as are meerely vnholy beneath in the earth These parts would no better accord together then those of the Image which Nebuchadnezzar beheld in his dreame whose head was of fine gold his Dan. 2. vers 32. breast and his armes of siluer his belly and thighes of brasse his legges of yron and his feete part of yron and part of clay Fourthly no happinesse belongeth to any sauing to the iust it is their portion peculiarly reserued for them and then consequently it followeth that euery true harted man of vertuous behauiour is vndoubtedly righteous for blessed are they that are Psal 119. v. 1. 2. vpright in their way and walke in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their whole hart Consolation for poore Christians much clogged and yoaked Vse with corruptions and infirmities whose desires of weldoing are resisted by Sathan and sinnefull nature that though their enimies hinder them from the performance of many righteous workes yet they cannot disable them from being righteous people they shall neuer be able to stay Gods hand from giuing them grace to make them iust nor to stoppe his mouth from yeelding his testimony and acknowledging them to be iust Their faults are to be rebuked and repented for as being breaches of Gods law and hurtfull to their owne soules and sometimes scandalous to others but yet they make not a nullity of their faithfulnesse neither doth the Lord disclaime them for the same Dauid had his slips and frailties and failed of duty in diuers matters as in his passionate heate purposing and swearing to destroy Nabals whole family in passing such a rash sentence against Mephibosheth to passe away all his maintainance from him in being too too indulgent to his vngratious Sonnes Ammon Abshalom and Adonijah and yet the Lord passeth by all these and others of the like nature and saith Dauid did that 1. King 15. v. 5. which was right in the sight of the Lord and turned from nothing that he commaunded him all the daies of his life saue only in the matter of Vrijah the Hittite Let the Deuill then rage and wicked men raile and charge thee with hypocrisie arrogancy presumptuousnesse disloyaltie heresie lolardie or with whatsoeuer else an hellish braine may inuent or a virulent mouth can vomit out yet thy hart and waies deposing for thine integrity that thou seruest God as well as thou canst and desirest to doe it farre better if thou couldest be not dishartened at all their slaunderous calumniations Reproofe of them that are only sayers in cases of Christianity Vse hauing their mouthes full of religion and their harts altogether empty which discourse of thinges to be done and practise nothing like negligent trauailours that spend the morning in their beddes and the after-noone in the Ale-house and talke of their iourney and which way it lyeth but set not one foote forwards therein And how much better then these are those who doe many thinges which they ought but nothing as they should for they