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<p>These two verses are, in effect, the same, and both to the same purport with <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.11.3" href="/passage/?search=Prov.11.3">Prov. 11:3</a>. For the truths are here of such certainty and weight that they cannot be too often inculcated. Let us govern ourselves by these principles.</p>
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<p class="tab-1">I. That the ways of religion are plain and safe, and in them we may enjoy a holy security. A living principle of honesty and grace will be, 1. Our best direction in the right way, in every doubtful case to say to us, <i>This is the way, walk in it</i>. He that acts without a guide looks right on and sees his way before him. 2. Our best deliverance from every false way: <i>The righteousness of the upright</i> shall be armour of proof to them, to deliver them from the allurements of the devil and the world, and from their menaces.</p>
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<p class="tab-1">The ways of wickedness are dangerous and destructive: <i>The wicked shall fail</i> into misery and ruin <i>by their own wickedness</i>, and be <i>taken in their own naughtiness</i> as in a snare. <i>O Israel! thou hast destroyed thyself</i>. Their sin will be their punishment; that very thing by which they contrived to shelter themselves will make against them.</p>
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