The Proverbes

 

1.1  The vse of the Prouerbes.

1.7  An exhortation to feare God and beleeue his word.

1.10  To auoyd the intisings of sinners.

1.20  Wisdome complaineth of her contemmpt.

1.24  She theatneth her contemners.

 

2.1  Wisdome promiseth godlinesse to her children,

2.10  and safety from euill company,

2.20  and direction in good wayes.

 

3.1  An exhortation to obedience,

3.5  to faith,

3.7  to mortification

3.9  to deuotion,

3.11  to patience.

3.13  The happy gaine of wisdome.

3.19  The power,

3.21  and the benefits of wisdome.

3.27  An exhortation to charitablenesse,

3.30  peaceablenesse,

3.31  and contentednesse.

3.33  The cursed state of the wicked.

 

4.1  Solomon, to perswade obedience,

4.3  sheweth what instruction hee had of his parents,

4.5  to study wisdome,

4.14  and to shun the path of the wicked.

4.20  Hee exhorteth to faith,

4.23  and sanctification.

 

5.1  Solomon exhorteth to the studie of wisdome.

5.3  He sheweth the mischiefe of whoredome and riot.

5.15  He exhorteth to contentednesse, liberalitie, and chastitie.

5.22  The wicked are ouertaken with their owne sinnes.

 

6.1  Against suretiship,

6.6  Idlenesse,

6.12  And mischieuousnesse.

6.16  Seuen things hatefull to God.

6.20  The blessings of obedience,

6.25  The mischiefe of whoredome.

 

7.1  Solomon perswadeth to sincere and kind familiaritie with wisedome.

7.6  In an example of his owne experience, he sheweth

7.10  the cunning of an whore,

7.22  And the desperate simplicitie of a yong wanton.

7.24  Hee dehorteth from such wickednesse.

 

8.1  The fame,

8.6  and euidencie of wisdome.

8.10  The excellencie,

8.12  The nature,

8.15  the power,

8.18  the riches,

8.22  and the eternitie of wisedome.

8.32  Wisdome is to be desired for the blessednesse it bringeth.

 

9.1  The discipline ,

9.4  and doctrine of wisdome.

9.13  The custome,

9.16  and error of folly.

 

10.1  From this chapter to the five and twentieth, are sundry obseruationsof morall vertues, and their contrary vices.

 

25.1  Obseruations about Kings,

25.8  and about auoyding causes of quarrels, and sundry causes thereof.

 

26.1  Obseruations about fooles,

26.13  about sluggards,

26.17  and about contentious busiebodies.

 

27.1  Obseruations of selfe-loue:

27.5  of true loue:

27.11  of care to auoid offences:

27.23 and of the householde care. 

 

28.1  Generall obseruations of impietie and religious integritie.

 

29.1  Obseruations of publicke gouernement,

29.15  And of priuate.

29.22  Of anger, pride, theeuery, cowardize, and corruption.

 

30.1  Agurs confession of his gaith.

30.7  The two points of his prayer.

30.10  The meanest are not to bee wronged.

30.11  Foure wicked generations.

30.15  Foure things insatiable.

30.17  Parents are not to bee despised.

30.18  Foure things hard to be knowen,

30.21 Foure things vntollerable.

30.24  Foure things exceeding wise.

30.29  Foure things stately.

30.32  Wrath is to bee preuented.

 

31.1  Lemuels lesson of chastitie and temperance.

31.6  The afflicted are to be comforted and defended.

31.10  The praise and prosperities of a good wife.