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A20544	A plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625. aut	1606 (1606)	STC 6954; ESTC S109738	92,972	171

nor yet in case to bee saued And hee that wanteth will and abilitie to talke Christianly doth proclaime by silence that he hath not the spirit of faith 2. Cor. 4. 13. More shall bee spoken of this point in the 13. Chap. 14. verse Hatred stirreth vp contentions but loue couereth all Verse 12 trespasses Hatred and all vncharitable affections as enuie and wrath Stirreth vp strife worketh all kind of reuenge and mischiefe as backbiting obbrayding with former faults and very often procureth iniust criminations But loue couereth all trespasses by forgiuing them and reprouing them in friendly manner and by concealing them from all those to whom the knowledge of them hath not come or doth not appertaine The opposition is thus framed Hatred stirreth vp contentions and blazeth abroad mens infirmities but loue seeketh peace and couereth all trespasses Hatred The actions and speeches of men are not so much Doct. a cause of strife and debate as the euill affections of their harts An ill heart raiseth contention Diuers times it falleth out that the wrong doer is not so much faulty as he that shold better beare it no iniuries could work a quarrelous contention vnlesse there were a defect of loue on both sides It is said Chap. 18. 6. That a fooles lippes come with strife It is not the occasion giuen so much as the lips that make the breach and the lips could not doe it vnlesse the man set them on worke and the man would not so set them on worke vnlesse folly and sin ouerruled both him and his lips So Chap. 15. 18. Angry men are brought in for the authors of strife but hee that is slow to wrath hath this testimonie giuen him that he will appease it What was the reason why Iosephs brethren had such a quarrell at him Beecause they saw their father loue him more then all the rest they hated him and could not speake peaceably to him Gen. 37. 4. What moued Ahab to be alway so bitter against Elijah and Micaiah Hee telleth the cause himselfe he hated them and reputed them to bee his enemies 1. Kings 21. 20. 22. 8. First wheresoeuer hatred is one man maligneth another Reasons 1 there is pride and onely by pride contentions come Chap. 13. 10. Secondly if strife did not more proceede from the inward corruptions then the outward occasions they that were most wronged should necessarilie be most contentious and so Moises and Dauid and Ieremie and Paul and Iesus Christ himselfe of all other should haue beene most vnquiet and clamorous But these had neuer any equall vnto them for peaceable and gentle behauiour Numb 12. 2. 3. Math. 12. 19. 1. Pet. 4. 23. Confutation of them that lay the blame of their frowardnesse Vse 1 vpon the vnkindenesse of their neighbours and especially of such as charge the ministrie of the word and the preachers of it with all the scismes and sedicions and with all the breaches and diuisions that are in the Church They publish the Gospell of grace which teacheth peace and maketh peace betweene God and man and betweene man and man yea a man and his owne conscience But would there bee so great oppositions say they and themselues and their doctrine so much crossed and resisted vnles the cause were in them They be troublesome men and busie bodies giuen to faction and no man can liue in peace by them The Diuell cannot liue in quiet by them and therefore hee maketh a tempest in their hearts whom hee possesseth and so their waues dash against the ministers and all other good Christians Our Sauiour knew that such would bee the successe of his Gospell that wicked men would bee in as great a hurlie bu●lie at it as if he had come with fire and sword against them Ieremie cleareth Math. 10. 34. Ier. 11. 60. himselfe of all priuate occasions of discontentment amongst the people hee neither borrowed on vsurie nor lent on vsurie nor had any trafficke or dealing with them yet all contended against him and euery man cursed him But what moued them to such passion and distemper the Diuell and their owne sinfull hearts which the Prophet so mightely warred against Instruction if our hearts rise against our brethren and begin to grow turbulent and vnpeaceable that then wee call them to examination As S. Iames doth them that would not Iames. 4. 1. examine themselues from whence are these warres and contentions are they not from lusts that fight in the members Not to trust enuious persons for they haue not the gouernment of themselues though they speak faire and offer reconciliation Yet if they clense not their soules of their inward ranker of malice and that by repentance they will breake out againe into bitternesse as Saul did against Dauid But loue couereth c. Christian loue doth cause men to be Doct. mercifull to the soules names of their brethren which thing Loue is the least fault sinder Saint Peter teacheth alleadging almost the very same words of this scripture Aboue all things haue feruent loue amongst you for loue couereth a multitude of sinnes It hideth them all though there be neuer so many None haue this loue but such as haue felt Gods loue to Reasons 1 themselues remitting and couering their owne sinnes and that maketh them mercifull to others Col. 3. 13. Secondly they esteeme their brethren as their owne flesh and members of the same body and therefore will not willingly discouer the deformities or vlcers or the naked or vncomely parts thereof Thirdly they propose a coppie or patterne to themselues how themselues would bee dealth with in the like case according to the rule of our Sauiour and the summe of the law and Mat. 7. 12. Prophets Instruction to performe this dutie with faithfulnesse and Vse 1 good discreation to our neighbours First let vs take doubtfull things in the best part for loue is not suspicious but hopeth well of things that may haue good construction and peruerteth them not to the worst sence So we deale with our children in their distempers imputing them to some griping with winde or breeding of teeth or that some pinne pricketh them it is meere necessitie that driueth vs to see their frowardnesse Secondly though it be a fault yet if it be a small infirmitie and especially if it be a priuate wrong vnto ourselues let vs passe by it as the Lord doth most graciously with vs whose children Ephe 5. 12. Prou 20 3. we must heerein declare our selues to bee in imitating of him and it is a mans honour to passe by an offence Thirdly if there be an offence committed sit to be reproued let vs vse all holy lenitie if it may preuaile or seueritie in compassion to draw them out of their sinnes for that is the best couering to bring them to repentance that their iniquities may bee couered from Gods eyes and washed away for euer So did Nathan Iob. 23. 17. help to couer Dauids

A PLAINE AND FAMILIAR Exposition of the Ninth and Tenth Chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon MATTHEW 13. 35. I will open my mouth in Parables and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secret from the foundation of the world LONDON Printed by T. E. for Thomas Man dwelling in Paternoster-Row at the signe of the Talbot 1606. To the Right VVorshipfull Sir Anthonie Cope Knight grace mercie and peace bee multiplied SIr your louing acceptance of our former treatise together with the good entertainement which it hath found with many christian readers hath much encouraged vs to dedicate this also to your fauourable patronage Wee are now more willing to make some work for the presse because we haue no imployment in the pulpit And who knoweth but that others whom God hath graced with far greater sufficiencie may bee stirred vp heereby to publish some of their godly meditations that as their faithfull labours were formerly like pure fountaines which did onely refresh their particular congregations so now by meanes of printing they may bee made like great and comfortable riuers to water the whole land And whereas we and our families haue plentifully tasted of your goodnesse and mercie we thought it our bounden duties to manifest our vnfained thankefulnesse for the same that other Patrons may be moued by your example to shew the like compassion to their distressed Ministers that you haue done to vs and ours if our successe fall out according to our hope we purpose by Gods assistance to proceed further in this booke of the Prouerbs in the same methode which is heere already begun if otherwise yet this is our comfort that it hath beene and is our continuall care and hearts desire to keepe a good conscience and to recompence our present silence with the best seruice that we are able to performe vnto the Church The God of all mercie and comfort multiplie his gracious blessings vpon you more and more and graunt all peace and prosperitie to all those that faithfully loue and seeke the peace of the Church and the prosperitie of the Gospell Your worships in all Christian duties to bee commaunded Iohn Dod Robert Cleauer To the Christian Reader THe wisedome of God who best knoweth euery mans affections doth testifie that such as are full doe loath an hony Prou. 27. 7. combe but to them that are hungry euen bitter things beecome sweete That which is very good yea precious and desired of the best is distasted of such as regard not instruction but that which is good at all though meane and despised of the most is sauoury to such as soundly seeke saluation The perswasion whereof hath incouraged vs to bring forth our prouision and to set before thee such foode as God hath inabled vs to prepare We rest assured of thy Christian loue towards vs prouidence for thine owne soule that thou wilt be more affected with the matter of this treatise being as we hope sound and without corruption then offended with the manner thereof being homely and without elegancie As in expounding this Scripture to our owne flocks we respected the capacitie of our vnlearned hearers so in publishing the same to others we tender the profit of the simplest readers And as for them that are iudicious and Godly learned we presume that their owne knowledge the reading of more excellent discourses will minister wisdome to make their vse of this slender worke as this worke will giue them occasion to esteeme the better of more excellent discourses We haue thought good to choose these two Chapters to beginne with though almost in the middest of the booke that we might propose to thee a patterne of the exposition of both sorts of parables aswell of such as are set downe in forme of a treatise and continued discourse as of those which are for the most part single sentences If thou shalt iudge that there may be any fruit of these trauels we are minded if God will to explicate the rest but by parts and at seuerall times and not all entirely together Now in reading of this obserue that the reasons and vses of the points are not inferred vpon the allegations or amplifications immediately going before but depend vpon the propositions which are the doctrines raised out of the seuerall verses And into them are we compelled to enter abruptly without any precedent introduction to lead vs least we shuld either weary our selues in seeking varietie of preambles or wearie thee with innumerable tautologies and repetitions In the printing the pointing in sundry places is misplaced which in reading thou shalt easily finde and we hope wi lt easily redresse The God of mercie grant thee that grace which we can but wish thee and by the efficacie of his spirit worke in thine heart the vertue and power of this his holy word which we can onely by tongue and penne declare vnto thee Amen ERRATA FOllo 4. line 2. read professe fol. 6. l. 34. read nouriture fol. 22. l. 16. read describing fol. 23. l. 23. read discourse fol. 98. l. 9. read heart fol. 111. put out doth the first word of the line Other faults friendly Reader if thou find any I pray thee fauorably beare with A Learned and Fruitfull Exposition vpon the ninth Chapter of the Prouerbes of Salomon Prouerbs Cap 9 Ver 1. THis Chapter doth containe a briefe recapitulation or summarie almost of all the former eight Chapters containing First the holy instructions of Wisedome in the person of a Princesse or great Lady making a banquet Secondly the deceiueable and entising slatteries of Sinfulnesse and Folly in the person of a smoth and guilefull harlot Wisedome hath built her house c. Verse 1 Wisedome or Wisedomes viz. the most absolute and soueraigne Wisedome the Lord Iesus Christ who is the perfect wisedome of his father hath built her house that is the Church which is so called 1. Tim. 3. 15. and hewen out her seauen pillars that is hath most firmely founded and perpetually supporteth it with his owne hand which is more powerfull for it than many pillars and buttresses are to sustaine a materiall building whereby also is intended that the Churches safetie is accompanied with beautie as hauing pillars hewen out and pollished and not made of rough stones without garnishing Wisedome c. All true wisedome is contained in the holy Doct. 1 word of God he nameth not power iustice truth or mercie All true wisedome is in Gods word though these be also there in fulnesse but wisedome in this case taketh the first place and shineth out in greatest brightnesse In regard whereof the Apostle with a kind of insultation doth expostulate with worldly wise men where is the wise where is 1. Cor. 1. the Scribe hath not God made the wisedome of this world foolishnesse that is whatsoeuer policie or reason doth compare with the wisedome of the spirit or is repugnant to it or not sanctified by it that the Lord in word reproueth and