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A19309	A godly and learned exposition vppon the Prouerbes of Solomon: written in French by Maister Michael Cope, minister of the woorde of God, at Geneua: and translated into English, by M.O.; Sur les Proverbes de Salomon. English	Cope, Michael, fl. 1557-1564.; Outred, Marcelline.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 5723; ESTC S108673	1,131,578	1,352

are prudent nor that wisedome resteth in their heartes For seeing that the good man out of the good treasure of his hart bringeth foorth good things therefore shal their wisedome Mat. 12. 35. Iohn 19. 39. be knowne in the mids of fooles As Nicodemus gaue it openly to be known in the mids of the madde raging Iewes And forasmuch as it is not lawful for vs to dwel amongest fooles to consent with them but ought to withstande and reprooue them correcting and threatning thē otherwise we should be partakers with thē of their folly be like vnto thē it foloweth that they which faine not to se● their insolences cannot challenge wisedome Likewise albeeit that wisedome must bee knowne in the mids of fooles both by works and doctrine yet must wee diligently take heede from dooing our woorkes to bee seene of men but wee must labour onely to make our tallentes that the Lorde hath committed vnto vs to profit and increase 34 Iustice exalteth a nation but sinne is ashame to the people The peoples and nations of the earth desire to bee praised and honoured to bee famous and renoumed for the which they are feared and reuerenced they desire to haue greate titles And for to obteine this they inlarge their limites and increase their lordships in ioyning towne to towne countrie to countrie they build sumptuouse pallaces and castels which they labour to make impregnable and vnaccessible and care not though in their dooings they wring their neighbours and take not heede whither they doe things pleasing or displeasing God It is ynough for them to obteine their desires and to finish their enterprises They thinke by such kind of doings to bee magnified and exalted but they are much deceiued seeing 1. Pet. 5. 5. Luke 1. 51. Gene. 6. 7. 11. 4. Gene. 6. 7 11. 4. they haue not onely to do with mortal transitorie and frayle men as they are but with the eternal and almightie God who can tel how to mocke their enterprises and to frustrate their desires For hee resisteth the proude as sayth the virgin Mary hee hath shewed strength with his arme hee hath scattered the proude in the imagination of their heartes The very gyants hade felt it for though they were mightie and alwayes famous yet coulde they not auoyde the general flood Noes childrens children laboured to get fame and to fortifie themselues but God scattered them ouer all the earth through the confusion of tongues which he sent amongst them The Canaanites thought themselues highly exalted when they were multiplyed and their cities strongly furnished fenced with all riches but at the comming of the people of Israel GOD knewe wel howe to beate them downe and destroy them A man might here alledge the Assirians and Babylonians almost all the nations of the earth and in them to beholde how men doe not rightly proceede to be exalted if we followe their maners For as we read in the scripture God hath vtterly humbled abaced them Therefore if we wil be exalted let vs not desire to bee like vnto these nations but let vs learne at Gods mouth what gouernment we must folowe If thou doest obey the voyce of the Lord thy God he wil ordeine thee head ouer al the nations of the earth According Deut. 28. 1. too this same Solomon saith Iustice exalteth a nation We wil here take iustice for the obediēce of Gods voyce the which is imputed vnto vs when we beleeue and repent wherby we lead a pleasing an acceptable life vnto God For by fayth we renounce all vayne confidence which is detestable before God and cleane vnto him onely according as he demandeth in the Scripture By repentance we abhorre the euill that God forbiddeth and loue the good that he commandeth Thus doing we shal honour and glorifie him and he wil also exalt vs according to his promises And sith we are exalted by faith repentance the which are taught vs by the word it followeth that we haue no righteousnes but therby and so thereby we are exalted But this exaltatiō is not seene of thē that beholde it with a carnal eye and require nothing but external pompe Also they beleeue not that by the worde we may be exalted but rather suppressed and beaten downe And therefore they reiect this word and do persecute them which receiue it and beare it as though they were sworn enemies to kingdomes and principalities for to destroy and bring them to naught We must not wonder hereat for the exaltation which proceedeth of righteousnes is not knowne but onely of them which are spiritual for it is spiritual chiefly touching the temporal it appeareth so little in outwarde sight that they make no account thereof but onely that they be easily contented For God procedeeh not according to our estimation neither after the maner nor affection of men to exalt nations by iustice Wee may knowe by this that they which folowe iustice are most commonly scorned despised and reuiled in the worlde but yet they cease not to be exalted before God who doth honor glorifie them before men after as he knoweth to be expedient for them Nowe such nations as are truely geuen vnto righteousnes are contented with suche kinde of temporal exaltation as it pleaseth GOD too geue them and are not s●ayde thereat but haue their hearts and minde● fixed vpon the eternal exaltation the which was prepared in heauen before the foundation of the worlde was layde and the which they meditate and beholde by fayth and hope Nowe that iustice ought in this place to bee taken for the obedience to the voyce of God Solomon doeth shewe when against iustice hee setteth sinne saying But sinne is a shame to the people For there had beene no sinne in the worlde if Adam had not disobeyed the voice of God Gene. 3. 11. Rom. 5. 19. This is seene by the reproche that God made him and Saint Paul doeth plainely pronounce it For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by that obedience of that one shal many also bee made righteous Therefore as God by obedience exalteth nations euen so likewise by obedience hee bringeth nations to shame as he threatened the Iewes therewith And because that they feared not the threatenings but hardened themselues so much Leui. 26. Deut. 28. the more in persecuting the Prophets Iesus Christ our Lorde and his Apostles for this cause God hath so put them back cast them of that they haue iustly prooued and doe feele that sin is the shame of nations neuerthelesse they neither woulde nor wil yet vnderstande The faithful Christians amongst them haue wel felt it as we may knowe by their complaintes and confessions But now thou art farre of and puttest vs to confusion c. Againe Thou makest Psa 44. 10. 14. 7. 4. Psa 51. 4. Da● 9. 5. I●r 20. 11. vs to be rebuked of our neighbours c. Againe Against thee

God are in authoritie and beare rule many feare and abstaine from doing of euill before the world and also wil doe the workes of the righteous that they may bee had in good estimation and auoyde rebuke shame and punishment And also the good people which did not appeare and had no credit during the authoritie of the wicked and seemed to haue beene cleane gone come againe into light are commended and honoured as they are worthy they florish and prosper and liue in peace Now albeit that we must stoppe and let so much as we can that the wicked rise not vp yea euery man in his place yet it belongeth to none but vnto the Magistrates to punish them neyther is it lawfull for any man to wish or desire their destruction but rather we must pray for their conuersion except that we see manifestly they be obstinate and past amendment and are of the number of the reprobate The xxix Chapter 1 A Man that hardeneth his necke when he is rebuked shal sodainely be destroyed and cannot be cured THe doctrine of God which consisteth in commandements admonitions exhortations declarations corrections reprehensions and threateninges is compared vnto a yoake that is bound vpon the necke of oxen Nowe as there are some oxen which cannot bee tamed nor made to carie the yoake euen so is Iere. 5. 5. Mat. 11. 29 the world filled with rebelles which harden their neckes that is to say which waxe obstinate against the lawe of God and against his admonitions reprehensions threatnings as wee may see by experience and the complaintes thereof are contained in the scripture euen against the people of God And Deu. 9. 23. 24 as the oxen which refuse to beare the yoake doe tende vnto death for when we see that we can vse them no longer then we fat them for to kil them euen so doe the rebelles and indurate which haue neede of the yoake of correction and reprehension and doe with obstinacie reiect it doe thinke wel to play the valiant captaines to defende themselues and to despyte them which correct reproue them But God against whome of set malice they bend themselues can sodainely destroy them without helpe as diuers rebelles doe feele it wel and Solomon doeth pronounce it saying A man that hardeneth his necke c. And thus we are admonished to bende our necke to the yoake of the Lorde that is to say to become gentle and tractable easie to bee taught and humble when in his name and by his worde we are exhorted admonished corrected rebuked and threatened yea if we wil bee preserued and Psal 95. 7. Heb. 3. 7. Acts. 7. 51. exempted from destruction We are often admonished heereof Let vs humble ourselues therefore and become obedient that it may not bee reproched vs that we are people vncorrigible euen as Saint Steuen doeth reproche the Iewes therefore For sithens wee haue the worde more cleerly and plainly then had the Iewes we deserue wel to be sodainely destroyed and that without remedie if we harden our neckes against the doctrine For seeing that it is not of ignorance or of infirmitie onely that wee erre and faile but doe wilfully also resist the holy Ghost and thus by our sinne wee deserue to bee brused without helpe and also wee cannot be holpen for sinne Mat. 12. 31. 32. Heb. 6. 4. 10. 26. against the holy Ghost cannot bee pardoned neither also can it bee repented of Wherefore wee can finde no reconciliation We haue to note further that they which take in hande to correct and iudge others and in the meane while despise that which they themselues doe teache and also doe as euil or worse then they whome they reprooue shal not bee exempted from destruction as Iesus Christ and Saint Iames doe wel shewe Saint Paule also doeth attribute Mat. 7. 2. 23. 4. Iam. 3. 1. Rom. 2. 3. hardnesse of hearte vnto them and doeth threaten them with destruction Wee might apply this present sentence to this matter and say A rebuking man hardharted c. But the first exposition is receiued of al expositours and is the most meetest For this cause we wil followe it Notwithstanding wee may learne whether we be reprooued or rebuke other that wee shoulde not harden our necke that is to say if wee bee rebuked that we shoulde yelde ourselues tractable and easie to bee taught receiuing correction with humilitie feare and obedience and if wee reprooue other to bee ourselues of an vnreproouable conuersation desiring of God without fayning that hee woulde correct and chasten vs. For albeeit that men finde nothing in vs to bee reprooued yet can wee not iustifie ourselues before God for before him none of vs of ourselues are innocent and hee shal finde but too much to bee rebuked in vs all 2 When the righteous are in authoritie the people reioyce but when the wicked beareth rule the people sighe There is no people or nation howe ignorant and barbarous soe-euer it is which doeth not desire to floorish and to prosper to liue at ease and in rest to reioyce and triumph And for to obtain such pleasures we arme and fortifie ourselues we gather vittalles together abundantly and labour to growe riche mightily wee seeke friendship and couenantes of them whom we esteeme most mightie or the meetest to helpe vs and saue vs from daunger And when we are thus armed we thinke ourselues happy and are pleased And therefore we laugh wee reioyce we leape we daunce we sleepe wee rest and make vs good cheere without caring for any man The Gene. 6. Mat. 24. 38. Gen. 18. 19 Eze. 16. 49. Luke 17. 28. Dan. 5. 1. worlde in the time of Noe lyued after this fashion and manner euen so did the Zodomites in the time of Lot euen so did the Babylonians in the time of Balthasar But the end of all these people hath well shewed that they were not happy in that sorte that no man ought to reioyce therefore for they miserably perished And for this cause also Solomon doth shewe vs wherein chiefly the prosperitie of a nation consisteth and wherein they ought to reioyce saying VVhen the righteous are in authoritie c. Hee setteth the ruling or multiplying of the righteous For the people is neuer more happy neither ought they at any time more to reioyce then when the iust doe rule and reigne ouer them and is gouerned by a multitude of them It is a very commodious and profitable thing for a nation when it wanteth not righteous men as we may well vnderstand it first of all when God preserued and deliuered the family of Noe frō the flood because he was righteous Not that he had deserued Gen. 7. 1. Gene. 6. 8. 18. 26. Gene. 41. the same by his righteousnes for in that that he was righteous it came of the onely grace of God Secondly when God promiseth vnto Abraham to saue Sodome if there were fiftie righteous therin