rerfe.2t. PROVERBS. 85 Andas muchmay befaid concerning all other excellencie, profites, and pleafures,, that without the feare ofGod, and a goodconfcicnce, theyarevaniticofvanities, and onelyvani. EceLa tic,theyarenothing.but vanitic,&vexation offpirit.Iftherfore we would not be cenfurcd for vaine perfons, let vs labour for that which is better thenvanitic. Rcproofeofthofc that thinkgoodnes not goodenough for s the,n,but dcfpife andderide it,as ignominious, andcontemp tible,and which they area(hamedto giuc anycountenance vn- to.Theybe [lifeminded perlons in their judgement, that giuc themfclucsto praying,hearingoffermons, reading, and medi- tatingoftheScriptures, fanicfhfying.ofthe fabbath,that will be fociablc. with . them that vie: wholefome conferences, and Chrithanexercifes.. But as for thcmfelues, it is fit for menof their parentage, panes, andplaces, to fwcarc, and whore; and gtrai%;; and caroufe, andmakc a tradeofcarding, and dyeing, these beexercifes they take tobe agreeable to their education, and well befecmingtheirdegree : and to fome that arc notlb muchaffeacd tothefecourfes,prideisaamine, as theProphet pc73x: faith,. andcrueltie co4ereth.themae agarment: and others refigne otter theanfelues wholly toother mannerofdclights, that all ofthem louenothing fomuch as:ìnne,.nor loath any thingCo» muchas goodness. ¡ /Ind ápooreman, arc. Pouertie ismodifparagcment to the Doß1.2.- godly,nor wealth anypreferment to the.wicked. Men are not tobe cfleemed.ofaccording to-their (Lite, bur their honefikandworthines. He began this chapter- with the famematter,a.nd in the fir(}verfe,thefamepoint is confirmed, where it is tai d,that.betterit thepoore which walketh inhis vprt,ht *res,, thenhe thatabiefeth lsrc lippes,andu afoole. Ana. in the twelfth proa,rs.ti: chapter : :he righteous umoreexcellent then hisneixhboure And in afees : getter ù apoore, andwife child, then anolet,andteolilS Ectt.,t 3â - (1 , whichwill my more6e admonifled; There is in appearance, greatoddea between* an man, and achild betweenc one that hith fuch: princely trcafures, and theother that is fobare and poore bctvccnc thehighdigniticofanancient king,, and the loveabicetion, of àpoorc boy: and yet if fuch. a mean* M 3 : inferiout
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