152. PROVERBS. Chap.t. in times of peril!, when others peat : and theyand their feede be eltablifhed fo longas it is good for them, and in ioy all fuch bleffings ofthis life as will doe themmohgood. But thewickedAd' be cut offrom the earth, the vengeance of God (hall ouer - turne their perlons, eltates , poftcrities, as gratfe is mowne downe,or wadesplucked vp, or naugh. tie.trees are rooted out. If any obieet that the godly commonly haue the leaf} part in the earth, and in earthly bleffngs, and are foone[t rennoued; let him confider, that howfoeuer it kerne fo, yet indeed it is nothing fo. For while they liuchere, thewhole earth is theirs,with the vie of it, howfoeuer the LordTeeth it good to put them to a fpirituall dyer, and keepeth them from lurfetting by cxcefle, the better to fit them for their heauenly inheritance : and when they are taken away by death, they be tranflated to immrrtalitir and glory, where- as the wicked inlay that little or much which they haue, as vfurpers and theeues doe an houfe which they haue bro- ken into and keepe for a few houres vntill the Officers comeand apprehend them, and thenare they caft intopri. fon, or led vnto execution, rhq arc ejLE}ed witha witreihe, and call into perpetuall miferie. Doer. The Lord cloth not wholy referue mens reward for the Iudgement to come, but giueth to many force part of their pay in this world. That which the Prophet in the cafe ofa merciful! man doth profetTe both for and vnto the Lord, the Lord loth avow and will performe tò cuery one that is righteous and Pfal, 4r° a, metci`.ull, The Lordwill keepe him and prererase him aleve : he fhall be blefed vpon the earth, and thous 'halt not deliuer ham. vnto the will ofhisenemies. Perufe the thirtiefeauenth Pfalme, and note what content and harmonie there is betweene Darsid the Father, and our Solomon the Sonne, t ow fully they accord in this poynt, not onely in fuhftance but well- T'f`d 37.9.11. neare in words and fyllables; Such abe 6lefedofGod, (faith 2 , 21.38' the Pfalmi(l') (ball inherite the land or earth; and they-that be curfed ofhim flail be cut off. . The riuliteoyts'hall inherit the land,
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