jerfe 12 PROVERBS. S; and the idoltarous.papifs would haue fuppref%dthe Gofpell, attempting by Ere& fagot,to deterre every man from the pro- feflìon ofit.BL..twhat faith thc Lord c©cerningall these deuifes 2 whydoe the Heltben rage , and.tbept ople nournrure i4 vaine , a . :gaie the Lord , arid az ain frz his anzoynted ? Mee tb t daveAeth i,, ,the heaeuens : the L.rdskillharpe them irs derision. TheConsolation for Gods pcopl °, again fl whore the pur - poles of the wicked, with all theirwines and forces arc bent, Sec Chap. v. r. 9, Verfe 22. Thecl-fire of a wan is hisgoodnes r and a poremate -is better then a far. T He defireof ,a ras.t4, J that which euerie man ought mail to with and labour foiln hinafelfe, and toe(leemc and com- mend in other. , is his geodne.s, his pietieand religion to- wards God, his knercie, tructh, andvpright dealing towards men,and nota great elite, and earrhi e pompe, ani heethat in this mannerdoch good , and is faithfull and true, though hebeponrr,nothauing flore and abundanceof outward poi- fefíions,asbetter, inhappier cafe, and moreregarded of Gai, and goal men, thea a lier, thenan impiois,vnprofitable,and falle man, though licebe neuer fowealthic. at Vertue and ;veldoing,isthe bell ornament thatanic man can be deckedwith. 'Saint Paul ineffect doth fay as ,much , and confirmeth the famc,whenberdeclareth, that the kngdome of God, contìticth not an meareanddrink. , and then , not in rich andcoRifeapp.arcll,neithermoney,nor anie other corrupti- ble thing , but in rightcosufnes, andpeace, wed ivy in the holmGho/l. - Forwhofóeuer in.thefe things. ótrset&Chri1,is acceptable to God, and stpprotsedofmen. And that exhortation which. &eclefi lcs infcrreth , as the fcopc of hiswhole booke, and Lace is the verie quintet-fence exrraiSled out ofthe (AMC , makethdiredlie for the point. Let vs heare theend ofad : Fe,ar s God , andk?epc his commande, nts for this is the whole man, or wholeofthe man,without which, all that man is, or mankath, is nothing elfebut vanitic. Fit(l, vnleife thiswerefo, it would not be fo often and car- >1 neflly Dsa Eccl,x;
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