Verse 7

Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:25 : 25 I haue bene yonge, & now am olde: yet sawe I neuer the rightuous forsake, ner his sede to seke their bred.
• 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The LORDE knoweth how to delyuer the godly out of tentacion, and how to reserue the vniust vnto the daye of iudgment for to be punyshed:
• Job 8:20 : 20 Beholde, God will not cast awaye a vertuous man, nether wil he helpe the vngodly.
• Job 9:22-23 : 22 This one thige wil I saye: He destroyeth both the rightuous & vngodly. 23 And though he slaye sodenly wt the scourge, yet laugheth he at the punyshment of the innocent.
• Job 36:7 : 7 He turneth not his eyes awaye from the rightuous he setteth vp kynges in their Trone, and cofirmeth them, so that they allwaye syt therin.
• Eccl 7:15 : 15 These ij. thiges also haue I cosidred in ye tyme of vanite: yt the iust man perisheth for his rightuousnes sake, & the vngodly liueth in his wickednesse.
• Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 For all these thinges purposed I in my mynde to seke out. The righteus and wyse yee and their workes also are in the hande of God: and there is no man that knoweth ether the loue or hate of the thinge that he hath before him. 2 It happeneth vnto one as vnto another: It goeth with the rightuous as with the vngodly: with the good & cleane as with the vncleane: with him that offereth as with him that offereth not: like as it goeth with the vertuous, so goeth it also with the synner: As it happeneth vnto the periured, so happeneth it also vnto him that is afrayed to be man sworne.
• Acts 28:4 : 4 Whan the people sawe the beest hange on his hande, they sayde amonge them selues: This man must nedes be a murthurer, who vengeaunce suffreth not to lyue, though he haue escaped the see.