_. y PROVERBS. Chip. in this our Text ) and thirdly, from the endandvfe thereof, as (ball .ippeare in the wordsenfuing.The matter of it is Parables, whereby arc Cornett rocs meant, darke , and n yflicaJl fayings, mat to, not carte tobe vnderflood, as when they fay to aria , why ¿obn i 6.29. #eak ll thorn to themMParal les ? and againe, Loe now thouJJea- k:iplainely, and thou fea0 no `Parable : fometimes a bor- rowed ípeech, a fì :nilitude, or comparifon, as when it is faid, '4'14.. '3 34 era thefe things fake Iefits to the multitude in Parables : and fometimes fhort and tweet proverbiail (entences,full oft%eight and a ifedorne, as when it is laid, Mymouth(hall f ea(e of wife_ dore,and the meditationofmine heart is of knowledge. 1wiI1in- cline mine ears to a Parable,and vtter mygrauematter vpon the Z'fal,49.3.4 Harpe. And heere now doth the word beare all thefe fenfes in this place. TheScribe whom God vfed as his Secretary, or Pen-man,was Salomon, who is defcribed by his parentage, as being Dauidhis fonne, and by his dignitie, that bee was a King, whofe honourable cflate is illuf}rated by his glorious dominion or fubieas,1fraell, the peopleof the Lord, whom he had chofen to be his portion , and the lot of his inheri- tance, and that whilefl they were in their perfcc`lion of beau- tie, both for Church and Common-wealth , making but one and the fame entyre and vndcuided body , not yet difinem-, bred, nor rent a (-under one Tribe from another 3 as after- wards they were in the fucceedingages. Do5.t. The Parables, c. The Scriptures of God are not onely replenifhedwith truth, but with profound wifedome. If Col many Iemmes and Jewels bee to be found in this Booke,which is as it were, but one casket of the holy writings, what a multitude,&n:alic of richesare laid vp togethei: in the whole volumeof the Bible, which is the Lords full treafurie? They which hauebin writers of tome parts, have binalmoffi aflonifhed at, and rauifhed with the eminency of othr r parts, before manyof the diuine, and more then heaucnly Buokes and Prophecies were extant : as the Pfalmifl profciTethto the f43 19.129 Lord , faying : Thy tetirnonies are wonderfull, therefore dothmy k 3 ®, foule keeps them. The entrance into thy words lheweth 1 ght, c. The Apofllc Peter tcflifcth, thewords (that is the writings) cf
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