The way of the wicked is darknesse, they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
THe former verse is amplified by the contrarie estate & condition of the wicked, their way is as darknes, because they be destitute of the light of Gods word, and they know not wherein they shall fall: they sin & see it not; they run vnto heresies, and knowe it not; the iudgements of God hang ouer their heads, & they espie it not: therefore when* 1.1 they thinke least, they shall be brought into greatest danger; trouble shal assaile them like an armed man, and their sorrow shall come vpon them like as vpon a woman that trauel∣leth with ••hild▪ In this case are all those which are not inlightened by the word, this is the state of all those that make not the word their lanterne, continually to shine out before them. But the children of God are in a contrary case, they are directed by the word in all their doings, and in the light of the word they see light. They see the subtiltie of sinne, and therefore they shunne it, and they are taken with an horror as it were of all manner of heresies, they foresee Gods iudgements and preuent them, and so are they kept safe and preserued from euil. Thus farre haue we bene dehorted from vngodly company, both by precepts and reasons. The second part of this dehortation followeth from this place to the end of the Chapter.