John Trapp on Proverbs 14:15

Verſ. 15. The ſimple beleeveth every word] You may draw him any way with a wet finger, perſwade him, to any thing, as Rehoboam that old Baby. [non-Latin text not transcribed], was a very good rule of Epicharmus. Bee not light of beleef: Try before you truſt, look before you leap. Bern. de bono deſert. Alioqu[illegible: 1 letter] ſaliens antequàm videas, caſurus es antequàm debeas. Wiſdome would, that as men ſhould not bee over cenſorions (This man blaſphemeth, ſaid they of our Saviour) ſo neither overcredulous, as the giddy-headed Galathiaens were to their ſeducing Doctors, Chap. 1.6. I wonder that yee are ſo ſoon removed, &c. Let us leave to the Papiſts Miniſtrorum muta officia, populi caeca obſequia, their Miniſters dumb ſervices, their peoples blinde obediences: And ever count it a ſingular folly to take mens bare authority in matters of faith, and not to prove the ſpirits whether they are of God, 1 Joh. 4.1. as thoſe noble Beraeans did, and are worthily renowned for it, Act. 17.

But the prudent man looketh well to his goings] Hee looketh not ſo much what others beleeve, or not beleeve, do or not do, as what hee is bound to beleeve or do. Hee pins not his faith to another mans ſleeve, hee frames not his pace by another mans practice, but walks by line and by rule, treads gingerly, ſteps warily, lifts not up one foot till hee findes ſure footing for the other, as thoſe Pſal. 35.6. This is to walk exactly, accurately, not as fools, but as wiſe, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Eph. 5.15.