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<div2 id="Prov.xxxii" n="xxxii" next="Ec" prev="Prov.xxxi" progress="88.16%" title="Chapter XXXI">
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<h2 id="Prov.xxxii-p0.1">P R O V E R B S</h2>
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<h3 id="Prov.xxxii-p0.2">CHAP. XXXI.</h3>
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<p class="intro" id="Prov.xxxii-p1">This chapter is added to Solomon's proverbs, some
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think because it is of the same author, supposing king Lemuel to be
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king Solomon; others only because it is of the same nature, though
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left in writing by another author, called Lemuel; however it be, it
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is a prophecy, and therefore given by inspiration and direction of
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God, which Lemuel was under in the writing of it, and putting it
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into this form, as his mother was in dictating to him the matter of
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it. Here is, I. An exhortation to Lemuel, a young prince, to take
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heed of the sins he would be tempted to and to do the duties of the
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place he was called to, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p1.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.1-Prov.31.9" parsed="|Prov|31|1|31|9" passage="Pr 31:1-9">ver.
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1-9</scripRef>. II. The description of a virtuous woman, especially
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in the relation of a wife and the mistress of a family, which
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Lemuel's mother drew up, not as an encomium of herself, though, no
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doubt, it was her own true picture, but either as an instruction to
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her daughters, as the foregoing verses were to her son, or as a
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direction to her son in the choice of a wife; she must be chaste
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and modest, diligent and frugal, dutiful to her husband, careful of
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her family, discreet in her discourse, and in the education of her
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children, and, above all, conscientious in her duty to God: such a
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one as this, if he can find her, will make him happy, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p1.2" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.10-Prov.31.31" parsed="|Prov|31|10|31|31" passage="Pr 31:10-31">ver. 10-31</scripRef>.</p>
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<scripCom id="Prov.xxxii-p1.3" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31" parsed="|Prov|31|0|0|0" passage="Pr 31" type="Commentary"/>
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<scripCom id="Prov.xxxii-p1.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.1-Prov.31.9" parsed="|Prov|31|1|31|9" passage="Pr 31:1-9" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Prov.31.1-Prov.31.9">
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<h4 id="Prov.xxxii-p1.5">Maternal Counsels to King
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Lemuel.</h4>
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<p class="passage" id="Prov.xxxii-p2">1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that
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his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of
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my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not thy
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strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
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4 <i>It is</i> not for kings, O Lemuel, <i>it is</i> not for
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kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest
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they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of
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the afflicted. 6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to
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perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 7 Let
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him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
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8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as
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are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge
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righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p3">Most interpreters are of opinion that
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Lemuel is Solomon; the name signifies one that is <i>for God,</i>
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or <i>devoted to God;</i> and so it agrees well enough with that
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honourable name which, by divine appointment, was given to Solomon
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( <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p3.1" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.12.25" parsed="|2Sam|12|25|0|0" passage="2Sa 12:25">2 Sam. xii. 25</scripRef>),
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<i>Jedediah—beloved of the Lord.</i> Lemuel is supposed to be a
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pretty, fond, endearing name, by which his mother used to call him;
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and so much did he value himself upon the interest he had in his
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mother's affections that he was not ashamed to call himself by it.
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One would the rather incline to think it is Solomon that here tells
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us what <i>his mother taught him</i> because he tells us (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:Prov.4.4" parsed="|Prov|4|4|0|0" passage="Pr 4:4"><i>ch.</i> iv. 4</scripRef>) what his father
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taught him. But some think (and the conjecture is not improbable)
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that Lemuel was a prince of some neighbouring country, whose mother
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was a daughter of Israel, perhaps of the house of David, and taught
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him these good lessons. Note, 1. It is the duty of mothers, as well
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as fathers, to teach their children what is good, that they may do
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it, and what is evil, that they may avoid it; when they are young
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and tender they are most under the mother's eye, and she has then
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an opportunity of moulding and fashioning their minds well, which
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she ought not to let slip. 2. Even kings must be catechised; the
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greatest of men is less than the least of the ordinances of God. 3.
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Those that have grown up to maturity should often call to mind, and
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make mention of, the good instructions they received when they were
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children, for their own admonition, the edification of others, and
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the honour of those who were the guides of their youth.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p4">Now, in this mother's (this queen mother's)
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catechism, observe,</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p5">I. Her expostulation with the young prince,
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by which she lays hold of him, claims an interest in him, and
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awakens his attention to what she is about to say (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p5.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.2" parsed="|Prov|31|2|0|0" passage="Pr 31:2"><i>v.</i> 2</scripRef>): "<i>What! my son?</i>
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What shall I say to thee?" She speaks as one considering what
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advice to give him, and choosing out words to reason with him; so
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full of concern is she for his welfare! Or, <i>What is it that thou
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doest?</i> It seems to be a chiding question. She observed, when he
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was young, that he was too much inclined to women and wine, and
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therefore she found it necessary to take him to task and deal
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roundly with him. "<i>What! my son?</i> Is this the course of life
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thou intendest to lead? Have I taught thee no better than thus? I
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must reprove thee, and reprove thee sharply, and thou must take it
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well, for," 1. "Thou art descended from me; thou art <i>the son of
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my womb,</i> and therefore what I say comes from the authority and
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affection of a parent and cannot be suspected to come from any
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ill-will. Thou art a piece of myself. I bore thee with sorrow, and
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I expect no other return for all the pains I have taken with thee,
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and undergone for thee, than this, Be wise and good, and then I am
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well paid." 2. "Thou art devoted to my God; thou art <i>the son of
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my vows,</i> the son I prayed to God to give me and promised to
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give back to God, and did so" (thus Samuel was the son of Hannah's
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vows); "Thou art the son I have often prayed to God to give his
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grace to (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p5.2" osisRef="Bible:Ps.72.1" parsed="|Ps|72|1|0|0" passage="Ps 72:1">Ps. lxxii. 1</scripRef>), and
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shall a child of so many prayers miscarry? And shall all my hopes
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concerning thee be disappointed?" Our children that by baptism are
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dedicated to God, for whom and in whose name we covenanted with
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God, may well be called <i>the children of our vows;</i> and, as
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this may be made a good plea with God in our prayers for them, so
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it may be made a good plea with them in the instructions we give
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them; we may tell them they are baptized, are <i>the children of
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our vows,</i> and it is at their peril if they break those bonds in
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sunder which in their infancy they were solemnly brought under.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p6">II. The caution she gives him against those
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two destroying sins of <i>uncleanness</i> and <i>drunkenness,</i>
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which, if he allowed himself in them, would certainly be his ruin.
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1. Against uncleanness (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p6.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.3" parsed="|Prov|31|3|0|0" passage="Pr 31:3"><i>v.</i>
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3</scripRef>): <i>Give not thy strength unto women,</i> unto
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strange women. He must not be soft and effeminate, nor spend that
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time in a vain conversation with the ladies which should be spent
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in getting knowledge and despatching business, nor employ that wit
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(which is the strength of the soul) in courting and complimenting
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them which he should employ about the affairs of his government.
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"Especially shun all adultery, fornication, and lasciviousness,
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which waste the strength of the body, and bring into it dangerous
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diseases. <i>Give not thy ways,</i> thy affections, thy
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conversation, <i>to that which destroys kings,</i> which has
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destroyed many, which gave such a shock to the kingdom even of
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David himself, in the matter of Uriah. Let the sufferings of others
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be thy warnings." It lessens the honour of kings and makes them
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mean. Are those fit to govern others that are themselves slaves to
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their own lusts? It makes them unfit for business, and fills their
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court with the basest and worst of animals. Kings lie exposed to
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temptations of this kind, having wherewith both to please the
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humours and to bear the charges of the sin, and therefore they
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ought to double their guard; and, if they would preserve their
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people from the unclean spirit, they must themselves be patterns of
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purity. Meaner people may also apply it to themselves. Let none
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give their strength <i>to that which destroys souls.</i> 2. Against
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drunkenness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p6.2" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.4-Prov.31.5" parsed="|Prov|31|4|31|5" passage="Pr 31:4,5"><i>v.</i> 4,
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5</scripRef>. He must not <i>drink wine</i> or <i>strong drink</i>
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to excess; he must never sit to drink, as they used to do <i>in the
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day of their king,</i> when <i>the princes made him sick with
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bottles of wine,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p6.3" osisRef="Bible:Hos.7.7" parsed="|Hos|7|7|0|0" passage="Ho 7:7">Hos. vii.
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7</scripRef>. Whatever temptation he might be in from the
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excellency of the wine, or the charms of the company, he must deny
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himself, and be strictly sober, considering, (1.) The indecency of
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drunkenness in a king. However some may call it a fashionable
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accomplishment and entertainment, <i>it is not for kings, O Lemuel!
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it is not for kings, to</i> allow themselves that liberty; it is a
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disparagement to their dignity, and profanes their crown, by
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confusing the head that wears it; that which for the time unmans
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them does for the time unking them. Shall we say, <i>They are
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gods?</i> No, they are <i>worse than the beasts that perish.</i>
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All Christians are <i>made to our God kings and priests,</i> and
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must apply this to themselves. <i>It is not for</i> Christians,
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<i>it is not for</i> Christians, <i>to drink</i> to excess; they
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debase themselves if they do; it ill becomes the heirs of the
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kingdom and the spiritual priests, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p6.4" osisRef="Bible:Lev.10.9" parsed="|Lev|10|9|0|0" passage="Le 10:9">Lev.
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x. 9</scripRef>. (2.) The ill consequences of it (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p6.5" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.5" parsed="|Prov|31|5|0|0" passage="Pr 31:5"><i>v.</i> 5</scripRef>): <i>Lest they drink</i>
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away their understandings and memories, <i>drink and forget the
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law</i> by which they are to govern; and so, instead of doing good
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with their power, do hurt with it, <i>and pervert</i> or <i>alter
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the judgment of all the sons of affliction,</i> and, when they
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should right them, wrong them, and add to their affliction. It is a
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sad complaint which is made of the priests and prophets (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p6.6" osisRef="Bible:Isa.28.7" parsed="|Isa|28|7|0|0" passage="Isa 28:7">Isa. xxviii. 7</scripRef>), that <i>they have
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erred through wine, and through strong drink they are out of the
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way;</i> and the effect is as bad in kings, who when they are
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drunk, or intoxicated with the love of wine, cannot but stumble in
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judgment. Judges must have clear heads, which those cannot have who
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so often make themselves giddy, and incapacitate themselves to
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judge of the most common things.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p7">III. The counsel she gives him to do good.
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1. He must do good with his wealth. Great men must not think that
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they have their abundance only that out of it they may <i>made
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provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts of it,</i> and may the
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more freely indulge their own genius; no, but that with it they may
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relieve such as are in distress, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p7.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.6-Prov.31.7" parsed="|Prov|31|6|31|7" passage="Pr 31:6,7"><i>v.</i> 6, 7</scripRef>. "Thou hast wine or strong
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drink at command; instead of doing thyself hurt with it, do others
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good with it; let those have it that need it." Those that have
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wherewithal must not only give bread to the hungry and water to the
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thirsty, but they must <i>give strong drink to him that is ready to
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perish</i> through sickness or pain <i>and wine to those that</i>
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are melancholy and <i>of heavy heart;</i> for it was appointed to
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cheer and revive the spirits, and <i>make glad the heart</i> (as it
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does where there is need of it), not to burden and oppress the
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spirits, as it does where there is no need of it. We must deny
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ourselves in the gratifications of sense, that we may have to spare
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for the relief of the miseries of others, and be glad to see our
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superfluities and dainties better bestowed upon those whom they
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will be a real kindness to than upon ourselves whom they will be a
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real injury to. Let those that are <i>ready to perish</i> drink
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soberly, and it will be a means so to revive their drooping spirits
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that they will <i>forget their poverty</i> for the time <i>and
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remember their misery no more,</i> and so they will be the better
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able to bear it. The Jews say that upon this was grounded the
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practice of giving a stupifying drink to condemned prisoners when
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they were going to execution, as they did to our Saviour. But the
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scope of the place is to show that wine is a cordial, and therefore
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to be used for want and not for wantonness, by those only that need
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cordials, as Timothy, who is advised to <i>drink a little wine,</i>
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only <i>for his stomach's sake and his often infirmities,</i>
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<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p7.2" osisRef="Bible:1Tim.5.23" parsed="|1Tim|5|23|0|0" passage="1Ti 5:23">1 Tim. v. 23</scripRef>. 2. He must do
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good with his power, his knowledge, and interest, must administer
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justice with care, courage, and compassion, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p7.3" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.8-Prov.31.9" parsed="|Prov|31|8|31|9" passage="Pr 31:8,9"><i>v.</i> 8, 9</scripRef>. (1.) He must himself take
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cognizance of the causes his subjects have depending in his courts,
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and inspect what his judges and officers do, that he may support
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those that do their duty, and lay those aside that neglect it or
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are partial. (2.) He must, in all matters that come before him,
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<i>judge righteously,</i> and, without fear of the face of man,
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boldly pass sentence according to equity: <i>Open thy mouth,</i>
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which denotes the liberty of speech that princes and judges ought
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to use in passing sentence. Some observe that only wise men
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<i>open</i> their mouths, for fools have their mouths always open,
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are full of words. (3.) He must especially look upon himself as
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obliged to be the patron of oppressed innocency. The inferior
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magistrates perhaps had not zeal and tenderness enough to <i>plead
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the cause of the poor and needy;</i> therefore the king himself
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must interpose, and appear as an advocate, [1.] For those that were
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unjustly charged with capital crimes, as Naboth was, that were
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<i>appointed to destruction,</i> to gratify the malice either of a
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particular person or of a party. It is a case which it well befits
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a king to appear in, for the preserving of innocent blood. [2.] For
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those that had actions unjustly brought against them, to defraud
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them of their right, because they were <i>poor and needy,</i> and
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unable to defend it, not having wherewithal to fee counsel; in such
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a case also kings must be advocates for the poor. Especially, [3.]
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For those that were <i>dumb,</i> and knew not how to speak for
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themselves, either through weakness or fear, or being over-talked
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by the prosecutor or over-awed by the court. It is generous to
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speak for those that cannot speak for themselves, that are absent,
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or have not words at command, or are timorous. Our law appoints the
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judge to be of counsel for the prisoner.</p>
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</div><scripCom id="Prov.xxxii-p7.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.10-Prov.31.33" parsed="|Prov|31|10|31|33" passage="Pr 31:10-33" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Prov.31.10-Prov.31.33">
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<h4 id="Prov.xxxii-p7.5">The Virtuous Woman.</h4>
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<p class="passage" id="Prov.xxxii-p8">10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price
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<i>is</i> far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth
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safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
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12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
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13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with
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her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth
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her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet
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night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her
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maidens. 16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the
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fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. 17 She girdeth
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her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. 18 She
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perceiveth that her merchandise <i>is</i> good: her candle goeth
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not out by night. 19 She layeth her hands to the spindle,
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and her hands hold the distaff. 20 She stretcheth out her
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hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
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21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all
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her household <i>are</i> clothed with scarlet. 22 She maketh
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herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing <i>is</i> silk and
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purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he
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sitteth among the elders of the land. 24 She maketh fine
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linen, and selleth <i>it;</i> and delivereth girdles unto the
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merchant. 25 Strength and honour <i>are</i> her clothing;
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and she shall rejoice in time to come. 26 She openeth her
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mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue <i>is</i> the law of kindness.
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27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth
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not the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise up, and
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call her blessed; her husband <i>also,</i> and he praiseth her.
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29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest
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them all. 30 Favour <i>is</i> deceitful, and beauty
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<i>is</i> vain: <i>but</i> a woman <i>that</i> feareth the <span class="smallcaps" id="Prov.xxxii-p8.1">Lord</span>, she shall be praised. 31 Give
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her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in
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the gates.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p9">This description of the <i>virtuous
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woman</i> is designed to show what wives the women should make and
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what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses,
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each beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order, as
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some of the <i>Psalms,</i> which makes some think it was no part of
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the lesson which Lemuel's mother taught him, but a poem by itself,
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written by some other hand, and perhaps had been commonly repeated
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among the pious Jews, for the ease of which it was made
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alphabetical. We have the abridgment of it in the New Testament
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(<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p9.1" osisRef="Bible:1Tim.2.9-1Tim.2.10 Bible:1Pet.3.1-1Pet.3.6" parsed="|1Tim|2|9|2|10;|1Pet|3|1|3|6" passage="1Ti 2:9,10,1Pe 3:1-6">1 Tim. ii. 9, 10; 1 Pet.
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iii. 1-6</scripRef>), where the duty prescribed to wives agrees
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with this description of a good wife; and with good reason is so
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much stress laid upon it, since it contributes as much as any one
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thing to the keeping up of religion in families, and the entail of
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it upon posterity, that the mothers be wise and good; and of what
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consequence it is to the wealth and outward prosperity of a house
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every one is sensible. He that will thrive must ask his wife leave.
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Here is,</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p10">I. A general enquiry after such a one
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(<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p10.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.10" parsed="|Prov|31|10|0|0" passage="Pr 31:10"><i>v.</i> 10</scripRef>), where
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observe, 1. The person enquired after, and that is <i>a virtuous
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woman—a woman of strength</i> (so the word is), though the weaker
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vessel, yet made strong by wisdom and grace, and the fear of God:
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it is the same word that is used in the character of good judges
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(<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p10.2" osisRef="Bible:Exod.18.21" parsed="|Exod|18|21|0|0" passage="Ex 18:21">Exod. xviii. 21</scripRef>), that
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they are <i>able men,</i> men qualified for the business to which
|
||
they are called, <i>men of truth, fearing God.</i> So it follows,
|
||
<i>A virtuous woman</i> is a woman of spirit, who has the command
|
||
of her own spirit and knows how to manage other people's, one that
|
||
is pious and industrious, and a help meet for a man. In opposition
|
||
to this strength, we read of the weakness of the heart <i>of an
|
||
imperious whorish woman,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p10.3" osisRef="Bible:Ezek.16.30" parsed="|Ezek|16|30|0|0" passage="Eze 16:30">Ezek.
|
||
xvi. 30</scripRef>. <i>A virtuous woman</i> is a woman of
|
||
resolution, who, having espoused good principles, is firm and
|
||
steady to them, and will not be frightened with winds and clouds
|
||
from any part of her duty. 2. The difficulty of meeting with such a
|
||
one: <i>Who can find</i> her? This intimates that good women are
|
||
very scarce, and many that seem to be so do not prove so; he that
|
||
thought he had found a <i>virtuous woman</i> was deceived;
|
||
<i>Behold, it was Leah,</i> and not the Rachel he expected. But he
|
||
that designs to marry ought to seek diligently for such a one, to
|
||
have this principally in his eye, in all his enquiries, and to take
|
||
heed that he be not biassed by beauty or gaiety, wealth or
|
||
parentage, dressing well or dancing well; for all these may be and
|
||
yet the woman not be virtuous, and there is many a woman truly
|
||
virtuous who yet is not recommended by these advantages. 3. The
|
||
unspeakable worth of such a one, and the value which he that has
|
||
such a wife ought to put upon her, showing it by his thankfulness
|
||
to God and his kindness and respect to her, whom he must never
|
||
think he can do too much for. <i>Her price is far above rubies,</i>
|
||
and all the rich ornaments with which vain women adorn themselves.
|
||
The more rare such good wives are the more they are to be
|
||
valued.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p11">II. A particular description of her and of
|
||
her excellent qualifications.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p12">1. She is very industrious to recommend
|
||
herself to her husband's esteem and affection. Those that are good
|
||
really will be good relatively. A good woman, if she be brought
|
||
into the marriage state, will be a good wife, and make it her
|
||
business to <i>please her husband,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p12.1" osisRef="Bible:1Cor.7.34" parsed="|1Cor|7|34|0|0" passage="1Co 7:34">1 Cor. vii. 34</scripRef>. Though she is a woman of
|
||
spirit herself, yet <i>her desire is to her husband,</i> to know
|
||
his mind, that she may accommodate herself to it, and she is
|
||
willing that <i>he should rule over her.</i> (1.) She conducts
|
||
herself so that he may repose an entire confidence in her. He
|
||
trusts in her chastity, which she never gave him the least occasion
|
||
to suspect or to entertain any jealousy of; she is not morose and
|
||
reserved, but modest and grave, and has all the marks of virtue in
|
||
her countenance and behaviour; her husband knows it, and therefore
|
||
his <i>heart doth safely trust in her;</i> he is easy, and makes
|
||
her so. He trusts in her conduct, that she will speak in all
|
||
companies, and act in all affairs, with prudence and discretion, so
|
||
as not to occasion him either damage or reproach. He trusts in her
|
||
fidelity to his interests, and that she will never betray his
|
||
counsels nor have any interest separate from that of his family.
|
||
When he goes abroad, to attend the concerns of the public, he can
|
||
confide in her to order all his affairs at home, as well as if he
|
||
himself were there. She is a good wife that is fit to be trusted,
|
||
and he is a good husband that will leave it to such a wife to
|
||
manage for him. (2.) She contributes so much to his content and
|
||
satisfaction <i>that he shall have no need of spoil;</i> he needs
|
||
not be griping and scraping abroad, as those must be whose wives
|
||
are proud and wasteful at home. She manages his affairs so that he
|
||
is always before-hand, has such plenty of his own that he is in no
|
||
temptation to prey upon his neighbours. He thinks himself so happy
|
||
in her that he envies not those who have most of the wealth of this
|
||
world; he needs it not, he has enough, having such a wife. Happy
|
||
the couple that have such a satisfaction as this in each other!
|
||
(3.) She makes it her constant business to <i>do him good,</i> and
|
||
is afraid of doing any thing, even through inadvertency, that may
|
||
turn to his prejudice, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p12.2" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.12" parsed="|Prov|31|12|0|0" passage="Pr 31:12"><i>v.</i>
|
||
12</scripRef>. She shows her love to him, not by a foolish
|
||
fondness, but by prudent endearments, accommodating herself to his
|
||
temper, and not crossing him, giving him good words, and not bad
|
||
ones, no, not when he is out of humour, studying to make him easy,
|
||
to provide what is fit for him both in health and sickness, and
|
||
attending him with diligence and tenderness when any thing ails
|
||
him; nor would she, no, not for the world, wilfully do any thing
|
||
that might be a damage to his person, family, estate, or
|
||
reputation. And this is her care <i>all the days of her life;</i>
|
||
not at first only, or now and then, when she is in a good humour,
|
||
but perpetually; and she is not weary of the good offices she does
|
||
him: <i>She does him good,</i> not only all the days of <i>his</i>
|
||
life, but <i>of her own</i> too; if she survive him, still she is
|
||
doing him good in her care of his children, his estate, and good
|
||
name, and all the concerns he left behind him. We read of kindness
|
||
shown, not only <i>to the living,</i> but <i>to the dead,</i>
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p12.3" osisRef="Bible:Ruth.2.20" parsed="|Ruth|2|20|0|0" passage="Ru 2:20">Ruth ii. 20</scripRef>. (4.) She adds
|
||
to his reputation in the world (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p12.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.23" parsed="|Prov|31|23|0|0" passage="Pr 31:23"><i>v.</i> 23</scripRef>): <i>Her husband is known in the
|
||
gates,</i> known to have a good wife. By his wise counsels, and
|
||
prudent management of affairs, it appears that he has a discreet
|
||
companion in his bosom, by conversation with whom he improves
|
||
himself. By his cheerful countenance and pleasant humour it appears
|
||
that he has an agreeable wife at home; for many that have not have
|
||
their tempers strangely soured by it. Nay, by his appearing clean
|
||
and neat in his dress, every thing about him decent and handsome,
|
||
yet not gaudy, one may know he has a good wife at home, that takes
|
||
care of his clothes.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p13">2. She is one that takes pains in the duty
|
||
of her place and takes pleasure in it. This part of her character
|
||
is much enlarged upon here. (1.) She hates to sit still and do
|
||
nothing: <i>She eats not the bread of idleness,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.27" parsed="|Prov|31|27|0|0" passage="Pr 31:27"><i>v.</i> 27</scripRef>. Though she needs not
|
||
work for her bread (she has an estate to live upon), yet she will
|
||
not eat it in idleness, because she knows that we were none of us
|
||
sent into this world to be idle, that when we have nothing to do
|
||
the devil will soon find us something to do, and that it is not fit
|
||
that those who <i>will not labour</i> should <i>eat.</i> Some eat
|
||
and drink because they can find themselves nothing else to do, and
|
||
needless visits must be received with fashionable entertainments;
|
||
these are eating the bread of idleness, which she has no relish
|
||
for, for she neither gives nor receives idle visits nor idle talk.
|
||
(2.) She is careful to fill up time, that none of that be lost.
|
||
When day-light is done, she does not then think it time to lay by
|
||
her work, as those are forced to do whose business lies abroad in
|
||
the fields (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.2" osisRef="Bible:Ps.104.23" parsed="|Ps|104|23|0|0" passage="Ps 104:23">Ps. civ. 23</scripRef>),
|
||
but her business lying within-doors, and her work worth
|
||
candle-light, with that she lengthens out the day; and <i>her
|
||
candle goes not out by night,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.3" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.18" parsed="|Prov|31|18|0|0" passage="Pr 31:18"><i>v.</i> 18</scripRef>. It is a mercy to have
|
||
candle-light to supply the want of day-light, and a duty, having
|
||
that advantage, to improve it. We say of an elaborate piece, It
|
||
smells of the lamp. (3.) <i>She rises</i> early, <i>while it is yet
|
||
night</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.15" parsed="|Prov|31|15|0|0" passage="Pr 31:15"><i>v.</i> 15</scripRef>),
|
||
to give her servants their breakfast, that they may be ready to go
|
||
cheerfully about their work as soon as the day breaks. She is none
|
||
of those who sit up playing at cards, or dancing, till midnight,
|
||
till morning, and then lie in bed till noon. No; the <i>virtuous
|
||
woman</i> loves her business better than her ease or her pleasure,
|
||
is in care to be found in the way of her duty every hour of the
|
||
day, and has more true satisfaction in having <i>given meat to her
|
||
household</i> betimes in the morning than those can have in the
|
||
money they have won, much more in what they have lost, who sat up
|
||
all night at play. Those that have a family to take care of should
|
||
not love their bed too well in a morning. (4.) She applies herself
|
||
to the business that is proper for her. It is not in a scholar's
|
||
business, or statesman's business, or husbandman's business, that
|
||
she employs herself, but in women's business: <i>She seeks wool and
|
||
flax,</i> where she may have the best of each at the best hand, and
|
||
cheapest; she has a stock of both by her, and every thing that is
|
||
necessary to the carrying on both of the woollen and the linen
|
||
manufacture (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.5" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.13" parsed="|Prov|31|13|0|0" passage="Pr 31:13"><i>v.</i> 13</scripRef>),
|
||
and with this she does not only set the poor on work, which is a
|
||
very good office, but does herself work, <i>and work willingly,
|
||
with her hands;</i> she <i>works with the counsel or delight of her
|
||
hands</i> (so the word is); she goes about it cheerfully and
|
||
dexterously, lays not only her hand, but her mind to it, and goes
|
||
on in it without weariness in well-doing. <i>She lays her</i> own
|
||
<i>hands to the spindle,</i> or spinning-wheel, <i>and her hands
|
||
hold the distaff</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.6" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.19" parsed="|Prov|31|19|0|0" passage="Pr 31:19"><i>v.</i>
|
||
19</scripRef>), and she does not reckon it either an abridgment of
|
||
her liberty or a disparagement to her dignity, or at all
|
||
inconsistent with her repose. The spindle and the distaff are here
|
||
mentioned as her honour, while the ornaments of the daughters of
|
||
Zion are reckoned up to their reproach, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.7" osisRef="Bible:Isa.2.18" parsed="|Isa|2|18|0|0" passage="Isa 2:18">Isa. ii. 18</scripRef>, &c. (5.) She does what she
|
||
does with all her might, and does not trifle in it (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p13.8" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.17" parsed="|Prov|31|17|0|0" passage="Pr 31:17"><i>v.</i> 17</scripRef>); <i>She girds her loins
|
||
with strength and strengthens her arms;</i> she does not employ
|
||
herself in sitting work only, or in that which is only the nice
|
||
performance of the fingers (there are works that are scarcely one
|
||
remove from doing nothing); but, if there be occasion, she will go
|
||
through with work that requires all the strength she has, which she
|
||
will use as one that knows it is the way to have more.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p14">3. She is one that makes what she does to
|
||
turn to a good account, by her prudent management of it. She does
|
||
not toil all night and catch nothing; no, she herself <i>perceives
|
||
that her merchandise is good</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p14.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.18" parsed="|Prov|31|18|0|0" passage="Pr 31:18"><i>v.</i> 18</scripRef>); she is sensible that <i>in
|
||
all</i> her <i>labour there is profit,</i> and that encourages her
|
||
to go on in it. She perceives that she can make things herself
|
||
better and cheaper than she can buy them; she finds by observation
|
||
what branch of her employment brings in the best returns, and to
|
||
that she applies herself most closely. (1.) She brings in
|
||
provisions of all things necessary and convenient for her family,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p14.2" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.14" parsed="|Prov|31|14|0|0" passage="Pr 31:14"><i>v.</i> 14</scripRef>. No
|
||
<i>merchants' ships,</i> no, not Solomon's navy, ever made a more
|
||
advantageous return than her employments do. Do they bring in
|
||
foreign commodities with the effects they export? So does she with
|
||
the fruit of her labours. What her own ground does not produce she
|
||
can furnish herself with, if she have occasion for it, by
|
||
exchanging her own goods for it; and so <i>she brings her food from
|
||
afar.</i> Not that she values things the more for their being
|
||
far-fetched, but, if they be ever so far off, if she must have them
|
||
she knows how to come by them. (2.) She purchases lands, and
|
||
enlarges the demesne of the family (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p14.3" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.16" parsed="|Prov|31|16|0|0" passage="Pr 31:16"><i>v.</i> 16</scripRef>): <i>She considers a field, and
|
||
buys it.</i> She considers what an advantage it will be to the
|
||
family and what a good account it will turn to, and therefore she
|
||
buys it; or, rather, though she have ever so much mind to it she
|
||
will not buy it till she has first considered it, whether it be
|
||
worth her money, whether she can afford to take so much money out
|
||
of her stock as must go to purchase it, whether the title be good,
|
||
whether the ground will answer the character given of it, and
|
||
whether she has money at command to pay for it. Many have undone
|
||
themselves by buying without considering; but those who would make
|
||
advantageous purchases must consider, and then buy. <i>She</i> also
|
||
<i>plants a vineyard,</i> but it is <i>with the fruit of her
|
||
hands;</i> she does not take up money, or run into debt, to do it,
|
||
but she does it with what she can spare out of the gains of her own
|
||
housewifery. Men should not lay out any thing upon superfluities,
|
||
till, by the blessing of God upon their industry, they have got
|
||
before-hand, and can afford it; and <i>then</i> the fruit of the
|
||
vineyard is likely to be doubly sweet, when it is the fruit of
|
||
honest industry. (3.) She furnishes her house well and has good
|
||
clothing for herself and her family (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p14.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.22" parsed="|Prov|31|22|0|0" passage="Pr 31:22"><i>v.</i> 22</scripRef>): <i>She makes herself coverings
|
||
of tapestry</i> to hang her rooms, and she may be allowed to use
|
||
them when they are of her own making. <i>Her</i> own
|
||
<i>clothing</i> is rich and fine: it is <i>silk and purple,</i>
|
||
according to her place and rank. Though she is not so vain as to
|
||
spend much time in dressing herself, nor makes the putting on of
|
||
apparel her adorning, nor values herself upon it, yet she has rich
|
||
clothes and puts them on well. The senator's robes which her
|
||
husband wears are of her own spinning, and they look better and
|
||
wear better than any that are bought. She also gets good warm
|
||
clothing for her children, and her servants' liveries. She needs
|
||
not fear the cold of the most pinching winter, for she and her
|
||
family are well provided with clothes, sufficient to keep out cold,
|
||
which is the end chiefly to be aimed at in clothing: <i>All her
|
||
household are clothed in scarlet,</i> strong cloth and fit for
|
||
winter, and yet rich and making a good appearance. They are <i>all
|
||
double clothed</i> (so some read it), have change of raiment, a
|
||
winter suit and a summer suit. (4.) She trades abroad. She makes
|
||
more than she and her household have occasion for; and therefore,
|
||
when she has sufficiently stocked her family, <i>she sells fine
|
||
linen and girdles to the merchants</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p14.5" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.24" parsed="|Prov|31|24|0|0" passage="Pr 31:24"><i>v.</i> 24</scripRef>), who carry them to Tyre, the
|
||
mart of the nations, or some other trading city. Those families are
|
||
likely to thrive that sell more than they buy; as it is well with
|
||
the kingdom when abundance of its home manufactures are exported.
|
||
It is no disgrace to those of the best quality to sell what they
|
||
can spare, nor to deal in trade and send ventures by sea. (5.) She
|
||
lays up for hereafter: <i>She shall rejoice in time to come,</i>
|
||
having laid in a good stock for her family, and having good
|
||
portions for her children. Those that take pains when they are in
|
||
their prime will have the pleasure and joy of it when they are old,
|
||
both in reflecting upon it and in reaping the benefit of it.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p15">4. She takes care of her family and all the
|
||
affairs of it, <i>gives meat to her household</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p15.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.15" parsed="|Prov|31|15|0|0" passage="Pr 31:15"><i>v.</i> 15</scripRef>), to every one <i>his
|
||
portion of meat in due season,</i> so that none of her servants
|
||
have reason to complain of being kept short or faring hard. She
|
||
gives also <i>a portion</i> (an allotment of work, as well as meat)
|
||
<i>to her maidens;</i> they shall all of them know their business
|
||
and have their task. <i>She looks well to the ways of her
|
||
household</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p15.2" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.27" parsed="|Prov|31|27|0|0" passage="Pr 31:27"><i>v.</i>
|
||
27</scripRef>); she inspects the manners of all her servants, that
|
||
she may check what is amiss among them, and oblige them all to
|
||
behave properly and do their duty to God and one another, as well
|
||
as to her; as Job, who put away iniquity far from his tabernacle,
|
||
and David, who would suffer no wicked thing in his house. She does
|
||
not intermeddle in the concerns of other people's houses; she
|
||
thinks it enough for her to look well to her own.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p16">5. She is charitable <i>to the poor,</i>
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p16.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.20" parsed="|Prov|31|20|0|0" passage="Pr 31:20"><i>v.</i> 20</scripRef>. She is as
|
||
intent upon giving as she is upon getting; she often serves the
|
||
poor with her own hand, and she does if freely, cheerfully, and
|
||
very liberally, with an out-stretched hand. Nor does she relieve
|
||
her poor neighbours only, and those that are nigh at hand, but
|
||
<i>she reaches forth her hands to the needy</i> that are at a
|
||
distance, seeking opportunities <i>to do good and to
|
||
communicate,</i> which is as good housewifery as any thing she
|
||
does.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p17">6. She is discreet and obliging in all her
|
||
discourse, not talkative, censorious, nor peevish, as some are,
|
||
that know how to take pains; no, <i>she opens her mouth with
|
||
wisdom;</i> when she does speak, it is with a great deal of
|
||
prudence and very much to the purpose; you may perceive by every
|
||
word she says how much she governs herself by the rules of wisdom.
|
||
She not only takes prudent measures herself, but gives prudent
|
||
advice to others; and this not as assuming the authority of a
|
||
dictator, but with the affection of a friend and an obliging air:
|
||
<i>In her tongue is the law of kindness;</i> all she says is under
|
||
the government of that law. The law of love and kindness is written
|
||
in the heart, but it shows itself in the tongue; if we are
|
||
<i>kindly affectioned one to another,</i> it will appear by
|
||
affectionate expression. It is called a <i>law of kindness,</i>
|
||
because it gives law to others, to all she converses with. Her
|
||
wisdom and kindness together put a commanding power into all she
|
||
says; they command respect, they command compliance. How forcible
|
||
are right words! <i>In her tongue is the law of grace,</i> or
|
||
<i>mercy</i> (so some read it), understanding it of the word and
|
||
law of God, which she delights to talk of among her children and
|
||
servants. She is full of pious religious discourse, and manages it
|
||
prudently, which shows how full her heart is of another world even
|
||
when her hands are most busy about this world.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p18">7. That which completes and crowns her
|
||
character is that she <i>fears the Lord,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p18.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.30" parsed="|Prov|31|30|0|0" passage="Pr 31:30"><i>v.</i> 30</scripRef>. With all those good qualities
|
||
she lacks not that <i>one thing needful;</i> she is truly pious,
|
||
and, in all she does, is guided and governed by principles of
|
||
conscience and a regard to God; this is that which is here
|
||
preferred far before <i>beauty;</i> that <i>is vain and
|
||
deceitful;</i> all that are wise and good account it so, and value
|
||
neither themselves nor others on it. Beauty recommends none to God,
|
||
nor is it any certain indication of wisdom and goodness, but it has
|
||
deceived many a man who has made his choice of a wife by it. There
|
||
may be an impure deformed soul lodged in a comely and beautiful
|
||
body; nay, many have been exposed by their beauty to such
|
||
temptations as have been the ruin of their virtue, their honour,
|
||
and their precious souls. It is a fading thing at the best, and
|
||
therefore <i>vain</i> and <i>deceitful.</i> A fit of sickness will
|
||
stain and sully it in a little time; a thousand accidents may blast
|
||
this flower in its prime; old age will certainly wither it and
|
||
death and the grave consume it. But the fear of God reigning in the
|
||
heart is the beauty of the soul; it recommends those that have it
|
||
to the favour of God, and is, in his sight, of great price; it will
|
||
last for ever, and bid defiance to death itself, which consumes the
|
||
beauty of the body, but consummates the beauty of the soul.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p19">III. The happiness of this virtuous
|
||
woman.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p20">1. She has the comfort and satisfaction of
|
||
her virtue in her own mind (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p20.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.25" parsed="|Prov|31|25|0|0" passage="Pr 31:25"><i>v.</i>
|
||
25</scripRef>): <i>Strength and honour are her clothing,</i> in
|
||
which she wraps herself, that is, enjoys herself, and in which she
|
||
appears to the world, and so recommends herself. She enjoys a
|
||
firmness and constancy of mind, has spirit to bear up under the
|
||
many crosses and disappointments which even the wise and virtuous
|
||
must expect to meet with in this world; and this is her clothing,
|
||
for defence as well as decency. She deals honourably with all, and
|
||
she has the pleasure of doing so, <i>and shall rejoice in time to
|
||
come;</i> she shall reflect upon it with comfort, when she comes to
|
||
be old, that she was not idle or useless when she was young. In the
|
||
day of death it will be a pleasure to her to think that she has
|
||
lived to some good purpose. Nay, <i>she shall rejoice in an
|
||
eternity to come;</i> she shall be recompensed for her goodness
|
||
with <i>fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore.</i></p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p21">2. She is a great blessing to her
|
||
relations, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p21.1" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.28" parsed="|Prov|31|28|0|0" passage="Pr 31:28"><i>v.</i> 28</scripRef>.
|
||
(1.) <i>Her children</i> grow up in her place, <i>and</i> they
|
||
<i>call her blessed.</i> They give her their good word, they are
|
||
themselves a commendation to her, and they are ready to give great
|
||
commendations of her; they pray for her, and bless God that they
|
||
had such a good mother. It is a debt which they owe her, a part of
|
||
that honour which the fifth commandment requires to be paid to
|
||
father and mother; and it is a double honour that is due to a good
|
||
father and a good mother. (2.) <i>Her husband</i> thinks himself so
|
||
happy in her that he takes all occasions to speak well of her, as
|
||
one of the best of women. It is no indecency at all, but a laudable
|
||
instance of conjugal love, for husbands and wives to give one
|
||
another their due praises.</p>
|
||
<p class="indent" id="Prov.xxxii-p22">3. She gets the good word of all her
|
||
neighbours, as Ruth did, whom <i>all the city of her people
|
||
knew</i> to be <i>a virtuous woman,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.1" osisRef="Bible:Ruth.3.11" parsed="|Ruth|3|11|0|0" passage="Ru 3:11">Ruth iii. 11</scripRef>. Virtue will have its praise,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.2" osisRef="Bible:Phil.4.8" parsed="|Phil|4|8|0|0" passage="Php 4:8">Phil. iv. 8</scripRef>. A woman that
|
||
fears the Lord, shall have praise <i>of God</i> (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.3" osisRef="Bible:Rom.2.29" parsed="|Rom|2|29|0|0" passage="Ro 2:29">Rom. ii. 29</scripRef>) and of men too. It is here shown,
|
||
(1.) That she shall be highly praised (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.29" parsed="|Prov|31|29|0|0" passage="Pr 31:29"><i>v.</i> 29</scripRef>): <i>Many have done
|
||
virtuously.</i> Virtuous women, it seems, are precious jewels, but
|
||
not such rare jewels as was represented <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.5" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.10" parsed="|Prov|31|10|0|0" passage="Pr 31:10"><i>v.</i> 10</scripRef>. There have been many, but such
|
||
a one as this cannot be paralleled. <i>Who can find</i> her equal?
|
||
<i>She excels them all.</i> Note, Those that are good should aim
|
||
and covet to excel in virtue. <i>Many daughters,</i> in their
|
||
father's house, and in the single state, <i>have done virtuously,
|
||
but</i> a good wife, if she be virtuous, <i>excels them all,</i>
|
||
and does more good in her place than they can do in theirs. Or, as
|
||
some explain it, A man cannot have his house so well kept by good
|
||
daughters, as by a good wife. (2.) That she shall be incontestably
|
||
praised, without contradiction, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.6" osisRef="Bible:Prov.31.31" parsed="|Prov|31|31|0|0" passage="Pr 31:31"><i>v.</i> 31</scripRef>. Some are praised above what is
|
||
their due, but those that praise her do but <i>give her of the
|
||
fruit of her hands;</i> they give her that which she has dearly
|
||
earned and which is justly due to her; she is wronged if she have
|
||
it not. Note, Those ought to be praised the fruit of whose hands is
|
||
praise-worthy. The tree is known by its fruits, and therefore, if
|
||
the fruit be good, the tree must have our good word. If her
|
||
children be dutiful and respectful to her, and conduct themselves
|
||
as they ought, they then <i>give her the fruit of her hands;</i>
|
||
she reaps the benefit of all the care she has taken of them, and
|
||
thinks herself well paid. Children must thus study to <i>requite
|
||
their parents,</i> and this is <i>showing piety at home,</i>
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.7" osisRef="Bible:1Tim.5.4" parsed="|1Tim|5|4|0|0" passage="1Ti 5:4">1 Tim. v. 4</scripRef>. But, if men be
|
||
unjust, the thing will speak itself, <i>her own works</i> will
|
||
<i>praise her in the gates,</i> openly before all the people. [1.]
|
||
She leaves it to her own works to praise her, and does not court
|
||
the applause of men. Those are none of the truly virtuous women
|
||
that love to hear themselves commended. [2.] <i>Her own works</i>
|
||
will <i>praise her;</i> if her relations and neighbours altogether
|
||
hold their peace, her good works will proclaim her praise. The
|
||
widows gave the best encomium of Dorcas when they <i>showed the
|
||
coats and garments she had made for the poor,</i> <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.8" osisRef="Bible:Acts.9.39" parsed="|Acts|9|39|0|0" passage="Ac 9:39">Acts ix. 39</scripRef>. [3.] The least that can
|
||
be expected from her neighbours is that they should <i>let her own
|
||
works praise her,</i> and do nothing to hinder them. Those that
|
||
<i>do that which is good,</i> let them <i>have praise of the
|
||
same</i> ( <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p22.9" osisRef="Bible:Rom.13.3" parsed="|Rom|13|3|0|0" passage="Ro 13:3">Rom. xiii. 3</scripRef>) and
|
||
let us not enviously say, or do, any thing to the diminishing of
|
||
it, but be provoked by it to a holy emulation. Let none have an ill
|
||
report from us, that have <i>a good report</i> even <i>of the truth
|
||
itself.</i> Thus is shut up this looking-glass for ladies, which
|
||
they are desired to open and dress themselves by; and, if they do
|
||
so, their adorning will be found to praise, and honour, and glory,
|
||
at the appearing of Jesus Christ.</p>
|
||
<hr style="width:2in"/>
|
||
<p class="intro" id="Prov.xxxii-p23">Twenty chapters of the book of <i>Proverbs</i>
|
||
(beginning with <i>ch.</i> x. and ending with <i>ch.</i> xxix.),
|
||
consisting mostly of entire sentences in each verse, could not well
|
||
be reduced to proper heads, and the contents of them gathered; I
|
||
have therefore here put the contents of all these chapters
|
||
together, which perhaps may be of some use to those who desire to
|
||
see at once all that is said of any one head in these chapters.
|
||
Some of the verses, perhaps, I have not put under the same heads
|
||
that another would have put them under, but the most of them fall
|
||
(I hope) naturally enough to the places I have assigned them.</p>
|
||
<ol id="Prov.xxxii-p23.1">
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.2">Of the comfort, or grief, parents have in their
|
||
children, according as they are wise or foolish, godly or ungodly,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.3" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.1 Bible:Prov.15.20 Bible:Prov.17.21 Bible:Prov.17.25 Bible:Prov.19.13 Bible:Prov.19.26 Bible:Prov.23.15-Prov.23.16 Bible:Prov.23.24 Bible:Prov.23.25" parsed="|Prov|10|1|0|0;|Prov|15|20|0|0;|Prov|17|21|0|0;|Prov|17|25|0|0;|Prov|19|13|0|0;|Prov|19|26|0|0;|Prov|23|15|23|16;|Prov|23|24|0|0;|Prov|23|25|0|0" passage="Pr 10:1,15:20,17:21,25,19:13,26,23:15,16,24,25"><i>ch.</i> x. 1;
|
||
xv. 20; xvii. 21, 25; xix. 13, 26; xxiii. 15, 16, 24,
|
||
25</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.4" osisRef="Bible:Prov.27.11 Bible:Prov.29.3" parsed="|Prov|27|11|0|0;|Prov|29|3|0|0" passage="Pr 27:11;29:3">xxvii. 11; xxix.
|
||
3</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.5">Of the world's insufficiency, and religion's
|
||
sufficiency, to make us happy (<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.6" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.2-Prov.10.3 Bible:Prov.11.4" parsed="|Prov|10|2|10|3;|Prov|11|4|0|0" passage="Pr 10:2,3,11:4"><i>ch.</i> x. 2, 3; xi. 4</scripRef>) and the
|
||
preference to be therefore given to the gains of virtue above those
|
||
of this world, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.7" osisRef="Bible:Prov.15.16-Prov.15.17 Bible:Prov.16.8 Bible:Prov.16.16 Bible:Prov.17.1 Bible:Prov.19.1 Bible:Prov.28.6 Bible:Prov.28.11" parsed="|Prov|15|16|15|17;|Prov|16|8|0|0;|Prov|16|16|0|0;|Prov|17|1|0|0;|Prov|19|1|0|0;|Prov|28|6|0|0;|Prov|28|11|0|0" passage="Pr 15:16,17,16:8,16,17:1,19:1,28:6,11"><i>ch.</i> xv. 16, 17; xvi.
|
||
8, 16; xvii. 1; xix. 1; xxviii. 6, 11</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.8">Of slothfulness and diligence, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.9" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.4 Bible:Prov.10.26 Bible:Prov.12.11 Bible:Prov.12.24 Bible:Prov.12.27 Bible:Prov.13.4 Bible:Prov.13.23 Bible:Prov.15.19 Bible:Prov.16.26" parsed="|Prov|10|4|0|0;|Prov|10|26|0|0;|Prov|12|11|0|0;|Prov|12|24|0|0;|Prov|12|27|0|0;|Prov|13|4|0|0;|Prov|13|23|0|0;|Prov|15|19|0|0;|Prov|16|26|0|0" passage="Pr 10:4,26,12:11,24,27,13:4,23,15:19,16:26"><i>ch.</i> x. 4, 26;
|
||
xii. 11, 24, 27; xiii. 4, 23; xv. 19; xvi. 26</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.10" osisRef="Bible:Prov.18.9 Bible:Prov.19.15 Bible:Prov.19.24 Bible:Prov.20.4 Bible:Prov.20.13 Bible:Prov.21.5 Bible:Prov.21.25 Bible:Prov.21.26 Bible:Prov.22.13 Bible:Prov.22.29" parsed="|Prov|18|9|0|0;|Prov|19|15|0|0;|Prov|19|24|0|0;|Prov|20|4|0|0;|Prov|20|13|0|0;|Prov|21|5|0|0;|Prov|21|25|0|0;|Prov|21|26|0|0;|Prov|22|13|0|0;|Prov|22|29|0|0" passage="Pr 18:9,19:15,24,20:4,13,21:5,25,26,22:13,29">xviii. 9;
|
||
xix. 15, 24; xx. 4, 13; xxi. 5, 25, 26; xxii. 13, 29</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.11" osisRef="Bible:Prov.24.30-Prov.24.34 Bible:Prov.26.13-Prov.26.16 Bible:Prov.27.18 Bible:Prov.27.23 Bible:Prov.27.27 Bible:Prov.28.19" parsed="|Prov|24|30|24|34;|Prov|26|13|26|16;|Prov|27|18|0|0;|Prov|27|23|0|0;|Prov|27|27|0|0;|Prov|28|19|0|0" passage="Pr 24:30-34,26:13-16,27:18,23,27,28:19">xxiv.
|
||
30-34; xxvi. 13-16; xxvii. 18, 23, 27; xxviii. 19</scripRef>.
|
||
Particularly the improving or neglecting opportunities, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.12" osisRef="Bible:Prov.6.6 Bible:Prov.10.5" parsed="|Prov|6|6|0|0;|Prov|10|5|0|0" passage="Pr 6:6,10:5"><i>ch.</i> vi. 6; x. 5</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.13">The happiness of the righteous, and the misery of
|
||
the wicked, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.14" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.6 Bible:Prov.10.9 Bible:Prov.10.16 Bible:Prov.10.24 Bible:Prov.10.25 Bible:Prov.10.27-Prov.10.30 Bible:Prov.11.3 Bible:Prov.11.5-Prov.11.8 Bible:Prov.11.18-Prov.11.21 Bible:Prov.11.31" parsed="|Prov|10|6|0|0;|Prov|10|9|0|0;|Prov|10|16|0|0;|Prov|10|24|0|0;|Prov|10|25|0|0;|Prov|10|27|10|30;|Prov|11|3|0|0;|Prov|11|5|11|8;|Prov|11|18|11|21;|Prov|11|31|0|0" passage="Pr 10:6,9,16,24,25,27-30,11:3,5-8,18-21,31"><i>ch.</i> x. 6, 9,
|
||
16, 24, 25, 27-30; xi. 3, 5-8, 18-21, 31</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.15" osisRef="Bible:Prov.12.2-Prov.12.3 Bible:Prov.12.7 Bible:Prov.12.13 Bible:Prov.12.14 Bible:Prov.12.21 Bible:Prov.12.26 Bible:Prov.12.28 Bible:Prov.13.6 Bible:Prov.13.9 Bible:Prov.13.14 Bible:Prov.13.15 Bible:Prov.13.21 Bible:Prov.13.22 Bible:Prov.13.25" parsed="|Prov|12|2|12|3;|Prov|12|7|0|0;|Prov|12|13|0|0;|Prov|12|14|0|0;|Prov|12|21|0|0;|Prov|12|26|0|0;|Prov|12|28|0|0;|Prov|13|6|0|0;|Prov|13|9|0|0;|Prov|13|14|0|0;|Prov|13|15|0|0;|Prov|13|21|0|0;|Prov|13|22|0|0;|Prov|13|25|0|0" passage="Pr 12:2,3,7,13,14,21,26,28,13:6,9,14,15,21,22,25">xii. 2,
|
||
3, 7, 13, 14, 21, 26, 28; xiii. 6, 9, 14, 15, 21, 22,
|
||
25</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.16" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.11 Bible:Prov.14.14 Bible:Prov.14.19 Bible:Prov.14.32 Bible:Prov.15.6 Bible:Prov.15.8 Bible:Prov.15.9 Bible:Prov.15.24 Bible:Prov.15.26 Bible:Prov.15.29 Bible:Prov.20.7" parsed="|Prov|14|11|0|0;|Prov|14|14|0|0;|Prov|14|19|0|0;|Prov|14|32|0|0;|Prov|15|6|0|0;|Prov|15|8|0|0;|Prov|15|9|0|0;|Prov|15|24|0|0;|Prov|15|26|0|0;|Prov|15|29|0|0;|Prov|20|7|0|0" passage="Pr 14:11,14,19,32,15:6,8,9,24,26,29,20:7">xiv. 11, 14, 19, 32; xv.
|
||
6, 8, 9, 24, 26, 29; xx. 7</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.17" osisRef="Bible:Prov.21.12 Bible:Prov.21.15 Bible:Prov.21.16 Bible:Prov.21.18 Bible:Prov.21.21 Bible:Prov.22.12 Bible:Prov.28.10 Bible:Prov.28.18 Bible:Prov.29.6" parsed="|Prov|21|12|0|0;|Prov|21|15|0|0;|Prov|21|16|0|0;|Prov|21|18|0|0;|Prov|21|21|0|0;|Prov|22|12|0|0;|Prov|28|10|0|0;|Prov|28|18|0|0;|Prov|29|6|0|0" passage="Pr 21:12,15,16,18,21,22:12,28:10,18,29:6">xxi. 12, 15, 16, 18, 21;
|
||
xxii. 12; xxviii. 10, 18; xxix. 6</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.18">Of honour and dishonour, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.19" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.7 Bible:Prov.12.8-Prov.12.9 Bible:Prov.18.3 Bible:Prov.26.1 Bible:Prov.27.21" parsed="|Prov|10|7|0|0;|Prov|12|8|12|9;|Prov|18|3|0|0;|Prov|26|1|0|0;|Prov|27|21|0|0" passage="Pr 10:7,12:8,9,18:3,26:1,27:21"><i>ch.</i> x. 7; xii. 8, 9; xviii.
|
||
3; xxvi. 1; xxvii. 21</scripRef>. And of vain-glory, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.20" osisRef="Bible:Prov.25.14 Bible:Prov.25.27 Bible:Prov.27.2" parsed="|Prov|25|14|0|0;|Prov|25|27|0|0;|Prov|27|2|0|0" passage="Pr 25:14,27,27:2"><i>ch.</i> xxv. 14, 27; xxvii.
|
||
2</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.21">The wisdom of obedience, and folly of
|
||
disobedience, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.22" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.8 Bible:Prov.10.17 Bible:Prov.12.1 Bible:Prov.12.15 Bible:Prov.13.1 Bible:Prov.13.13 Bible:Prov.13.18 Bible:Prov.15.5 Bible:Prov.15.10 Bible:Prov.15.12 Bible:Prov.15.31 Bible:Prov.15.32" parsed="|Prov|10|8|0|0;|Prov|10|17|0|0;|Prov|12|1|0|0;|Prov|12|15|0|0;|Prov|13|1|0|0;|Prov|13|13|0|0;|Prov|13|18|0|0;|Prov|15|5|0|0;|Prov|15|10|0|0;|Prov|15|12|0|0;|Prov|15|31|0|0;|Prov|15|32|0|0" passage="Pr 10:8,17,12:1,15,13:1,13,18,15:5,10,12,31,32"><i>ch.</i> x. 8,
|
||
17; xii. 1, 15; xiii. 1, 13, 18; xv. 5, 10, 12, 31, 32</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.23" osisRef="Bible:Prov.19.16 Bible:Prov.28.4 Bible:Prov.28.7 Bible:Prov.28.9" parsed="|Prov|19|16|0|0;|Prov|28|4|0|0;|Prov|28|7|0|0;|Prov|28|9|0|0" passage="Pr 19:16,28:4,7,9">xix. 16; xxviii. 4, 7,
|
||
9</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.24">Of mischievousness and usefulness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.25" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.10 Bible:Prov.10.23 Bible:Prov.11.9-Prov.11.11 Bible:Prov.11.23 Bible:Prov.11.27 Bible:Prov.12.5-Prov.12.6 Bible:Prov.12.12 Bible:Prov.12.18 Bible:Prov.12.20 Bible:Prov.13.2" parsed="|Prov|10|10|0|0;|Prov|10|23|0|0;|Prov|11|9|11|11;|Prov|11|23|0|0;|Prov|11|27|0|0;|Prov|12|5|12|6;|Prov|12|12|0|0;|Prov|12|18|0|0;|Prov|12|20|0|0;|Prov|13|2|0|0" passage="Pr 10:10,23,11:9-11,23,27,12:5,6,12,18,20,13:2"><i>ch.</i>
|
||
x. 10, 23; xi. 9-11, 23, 27; xii. 5, 6, 12, 18, 20; xiii.
|
||
2</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.26" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.22 Bible:Prov.16.29-Prov.16.30 Bible:Prov.17.11 Bible:Prov.21.10 Bible:Prov.24.8 Bible:Prov.26.23 Bible:Prov.26.27" parsed="|Prov|14|22|0|0;|Prov|16|29|16|30;|Prov|17|11|0|0;|Prov|21|10|0|0;|Prov|24|8|0|0;|Prov|26|23|0|0;|Prov|26|27|0|0" passage="Pr 14:22,16:29,30,17:11,21:10,24:8,26:23,27">xiv. 22; xvi. 29, 30;
|
||
xvii. 11; xxi. 10; xxiv. 8; xxvi. 23, 27</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.27">The praise of wise and good discourse, and the
|
||
hurt and shame of an ungoverned tongue, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.28" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.11 Bible:Prov.10.13 Bible:Prov.10.14 Bible:Prov.10.20 Bible:Prov.10.21 Bible:Prov.10.31 Bible:Prov.10.32 Bible:Prov.11.30 Bible:Prov.14.3" parsed="|Prov|10|11|0|0;|Prov|10|13|0|0;|Prov|10|14|0|0;|Prov|10|20|0|0;|Prov|10|21|0|0;|Prov|10|31|0|0;|Prov|10|32|0|0;|Prov|11|30|0|0;|Prov|14|3|0|0" passage="Pr 10:11,13,14,20,21,31,32,11:30,14:3"><i>ch.</i> x. 11, 13, 14,
|
||
20, 21, 31, 32; xi. 30; xiv. 3</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.29" osisRef="Bible:Prov.15.2 Bible:Prov.15.4 Bible:Prov.15.7 Bible:Prov.15.23 Bible:Prov.15.28 Bible:Prov.16.20 Bible:Prov.16.23 Bible:Prov.16.24 Bible:Prov.17.7 Bible:Prov.18.4 Bible:Prov.18.7 Bible:Prov.18.20 Bible:Prov.18.21" parsed="|Prov|15|2|0|0;|Prov|15|4|0|0;|Prov|15|7|0|0;|Prov|15|23|0|0;|Prov|15|28|0|0;|Prov|16|20|0|0;|Prov|16|23|0|0;|Prov|16|24|0|0;|Prov|17|7|0|0;|Prov|18|4|0|0;|Prov|18|7|0|0;|Prov|18|20|0|0;|Prov|18|21|0|0" passage="Pr 15:2,4,7,23,28,16:20,23,24,17:7,18:4,7,20,21">xv. 2, 4, 7, 23,
|
||
28; xvi. 20, 23, 24; xvii. 7; xviii. 4, 7, 20, 21</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.30" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.15 Bible:Prov.21.23 Bible:Prov.23.9 Bible:Prov.24.26 Bible:Prov.25.11" parsed="|Prov|20|15|0|0;|Prov|21|23|0|0;|Prov|23|9|0|0;|Prov|24|26|0|0;|Prov|25|11|0|0" passage="Pr 20:15,21:23,23:9,24:26,25:11">xx. 15; xxi.
|
||
23; xxiii. 9; xxiv. 26; xxv. 11</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.31">Of love and hatred, peaceableness and contention,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.32" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.12 Bible:Prov.15.17 Bible:Prov.17.1 Bible:Prov.17.9 Bible:Prov.17.14 Bible:Prov.17.19 Bible:Prov.18.6 Bible:Prov.18.17-Prov.18.19 Bible:Prov.20.3" parsed="|Prov|10|12|0|0;|Prov|15|17|0|0;|Prov|17|1|0|0;|Prov|17|9|0|0;|Prov|17|14|0|0;|Prov|17|19|0|0;|Prov|18|6|0|0;|Prov|18|17|18|19;|Prov|20|3|0|0" passage="Pr 10:12,15:17,17:1,9,14,19,18:6,17-19,20:3"><i>ch.</i> x. 12; xv.
|
||
17; xvii. 1, 9, 14, 19; xviii. 6, 17-19; xx. 3</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.33" osisRef="Bible:Prov.25.8 Bible:Prov.26.17 Bible:Prov.26.21 Bible:Prov.29.9" parsed="|Prov|25|8|0|0;|Prov|26|17|0|0;|Prov|26|21|0|0;|Prov|29|9|0|0" passage="Pr 25:8,26:17,21,29:9">xxv. 8; xxvi. 17, 21;
|
||
xxix. 9</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.34">Of the rich and poor, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.35" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.5 Bible:Prov.10.22 Bible:Prov.11.28 Bible:Prov.13.7-Prov.13.8 Bible:Prov.14.20 Bible:Prov.14.24 Bible:Prov.18.11 Bible:Prov.18.23" parsed="|Prov|10|5|0|0;|Prov|10|22|0|0;|Prov|11|28|0|0;|Prov|13|7|13|8;|Prov|14|20|0|0;|Prov|14|24|0|0;|Prov|18|11|0|0;|Prov|18|23|0|0" passage="Pr 10:5,22,11:28,13:7,8,14:20,24,18:11,23"><i>ch.</i> x. 5, 22;
|
||
xi. 28; xiii. 7, 8; xiv. 20, 24; xviii. 11, 23</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.36" osisRef="Bible:Prov.19.1 Bible:Prov.19.4 Bible:Prov.19.7 Bible:Prov.19.22 Bible:Prov.22.2 Bible:Prov.22.7 Bible:Prov.28.6 Bible:Prov.28.11 Bible:Prov.29.13" parsed="|Prov|19|1|0|0;|Prov|19|4|0|0;|Prov|19|7|0|0;|Prov|19|22|0|0;|Prov|22|2|0|0;|Prov|22|7|0|0;|Prov|28|6|0|0;|Prov|28|11|0|0;|Prov|29|13|0|0" passage="Pr 19:1,4,7,22,22:2,7,28:6,11,29:13">xix. 1, 4,
|
||
7, 22; xxii. 2, 7; xxviii. 6, 11; xxix. 13</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.37">Of lying, fraud, and dissimulation, and of truth
|
||
and sincerity, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.38" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.18 Bible:Prov.12.17 Bible:Prov.12.19 Bible:Prov.12.22 Bible:Prov.13.5 Bible:Prov.17.4 Bible:Prov.20.14 Bible:Prov.20.17" parsed="|Prov|10|18|0|0;|Prov|12|17|0|0;|Prov|12|19|0|0;|Prov|12|22|0|0;|Prov|13|5|0|0;|Prov|17|4|0|0;|Prov|20|14|0|0;|Prov|20|17|0|0" passage="Pr 10:18,12:17,19,22,13:5,17:4,20:14,17"><i>ch.</i> x. 18; xii.
|
||
17, 19, 22; xiii. 5; xvii. 4; xx. 14, 17</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.39" osisRef="Bible:Prov.26.18-Prov.26.19 Bible:Prov.26.24-Prov.26.26 Bible:Prov.26.28" parsed="|Prov|26|18|26|19;|Prov|26|24|26|26;|Prov|26|28|0|0" passage="Pr 26:18,19,24-26,28">xxvi. 18, 19, 24-26,
|
||
28</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.40">Of slandering, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.41" osisRef="Bible:Prov.10.18 Bible:Prov.16.27 Bible:Prov.25.23" parsed="|Prov|10|18|0|0;|Prov|16|27|0|0;|Prov|25|23|0|0" passage="Pr 10:18,16:27,25:23"><i>ch.</i> x. 18; xvi. 27; xxv.
|
||
23</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.42">Of talkativeness and silence, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.43" passage="Pr 10:19,11:12,12:23,13:3,17:27,28,29:11,20"><i>ch.</i> x. 19; xi.
|
||
12; xii. 23; xiii. 3; xvii. 27, 28; xxix. 11, 20</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.44">Of justice and injustice, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.45" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.1 Bible:Prov.13.16 Bible:Prov.16.8 Bible:Prov.16.11 Bible:Prov.17.15 Bible:Prov.17.26 Bible:Prov.18.5 Bible:Prov.20.10 Bible:Prov.20.23" parsed="|Prov|11|1|0|0;|Prov|13|16|0|0;|Prov|16|8|0|0;|Prov|16|11|0|0;|Prov|17|15|0|0;|Prov|17|26|0|0;|Prov|18|5|0|0;|Prov|20|10|0|0;|Prov|20|23|0|0" passage="Pr 11:1,13:16,16:8,11,17:15,26,18:5,20:10,23"><i>ch.</i> xi. 1;
|
||
xiii. 16; xvi. 8, 11; xvii. 15, 26; xviii. 5; xx. 10,
|
||
23</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.46" osisRef="Bible:Prov.22.28 Bible:Prov.23.10-Prov.23.11 Bible:Prov.29.24" parsed="|Prov|22|28|0|0;|Prov|23|10|23|11;|Prov|29|24|0|0" passage="Pr 22:28,23:10,11,29:24">xxii.
|
||
28; xxiii. 10, 11; xxix. 24</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.47">Of pride and humility, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.48" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.2 Bible:Prov.13.10 Bible:Prov.15.25 Bible:Prov.15.33 Bible:Prov.16.5 Bible:Prov.16.18 Bible:Prov.16.19 Bible:Prov.18.12 Bible:Prov.21.4" parsed="|Prov|11|2|0|0;|Prov|13|10|0|0;|Prov|15|25|0|0;|Prov|15|33|0|0;|Prov|16|5|0|0;|Prov|16|18|0|0;|Prov|16|19|0|0;|Prov|18|12|0|0;|Prov|21|4|0|0" passage="Pr 11:2,13:10,15:25,33,16:5,18,19,18:12,21:4"><i>ch.</i> xi. 2;
|
||
xiii. 10; xv. 25, 33; xvi. 5, 18, 19; xviii. 12; xxi. 4</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.49" osisRef="Bible:Prov.25.6-Prov.25.7 Bible:Prov.28.25 Bible:Prov.29.23" parsed="|Prov|25|6|25|7;|Prov|28|25|0|0;|Prov|29|23|0|0" passage="Pr 25:6,7,28:25,29:23">xxv. 6, 7; xxviii. 25;
|
||
xxix. 23</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.50">Of despising and respecting others, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.51" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.12 Bible:Prov.14.21" parsed="|Prov|11|12|0|0;|Prov|14|21|0|0" passage="Pr 11:12,14:21"><i>ch.</i> xi. 12; xiv.
|
||
21</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.52">Of tale-bearing, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.53" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.13 Bible:Prov.16.28 Bible:Prov.18.8 Bible:Prov.20.19 Bible:Prov.26.20 Bible:Prov.26.22" parsed="|Prov|11|13|0|0;|Prov|16|28|0|0;|Prov|18|8|0|0;|Prov|20|19|0|0;|Prov|26|20|0|0;|Prov|26|22|0|0" passage="Pr 11:13,16:28,18:8,20:19,26:20,22"><i>ch.</i> xi. 13; xvi. 28;
|
||
xviii. 8; xx. 19; xxvi. 20, 22</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.54">Of rashness and deliberation, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.55" passage="Pr 11:14,15:22,18:13,19:2,20:5,18,21:29,22:3,25:8-10"><i>ch.</i>
|
||
xi. 14; xv. 22; xviii. 13; xix. 2; xx. 5, 18; xxi. 29; xxii. 3;
|
||
xxv. 8-10</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.56">Of suretiship, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.57" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.15 Bible:Prov.17.18 Bible:Prov.20.16 Bible:Prov.22.26-Prov.22.27 Bible:Prov.27.13" parsed="|Prov|11|15|0|0;|Prov|17|18|0|0;|Prov|20|16|0|0;|Prov|22|26|22|27;|Prov|27|13|0|0" passage="Pr 11:15,17:18,20:16,22:26,27,27:13"><i>ch.</i> xi. 15; xvii. 18;
|
||
xx. 16; xxii. 26, 27; xxvii. 13</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.58">Of good and bad women, or wives, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.59" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.16 Bible:Prov.11.22 Bible:Prov.12.4 Bible:Prov.14.1 Bible:Prov.18.22 Bible:Prov.19.13-Prov.19.14" parsed="|Prov|11|16|0|0;|Prov|11|22|0|0;|Prov|12|4|0|0;|Prov|14|1|0|0;|Prov|18|22|0|0;|Prov|19|13|19|14" passage="Pr 11:16,22,12:4,14:1,18:22,19:13,14"><i>ch.</i> xi. 16,
|
||
22; xii. 4; xiv. 1; xviii. 22; xix. 13, 14</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.60" osisRef="Bible:Prov.21.9 Bible:Prov.21.19 Bible:Prov.25.24 Bible:Prov.27.15-Prov.27.16" parsed="|Prov|21|9|0|0;|Prov|21|19|0|0;|Prov|25|24|0|0;|Prov|27|15|27|16" passage="Pr 21:9,19,25:24,27:15,16">xxi. 9, 19; xxv. 24; xxvii. 15,
|
||
16</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.61">Of mercifulness and unmercifulness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.62" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.17 Bible:Prov.12.10 Bible:Prov.14.21 Bible:Prov.19.17 Bible:Prov.21.13" parsed="|Prov|11|17|0|0;|Prov|12|10|0|0;|Prov|14|21|0|0;|Prov|19|17|0|0;|Prov|21|13|0|0" passage="Pr 11:17,12:10,14:21,19:17,21:13"><i>ch.</i> xi. 17; xii.
|
||
10; xiv. 21; xix. 17; xxi. 13</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.63">Of charity to the poor, and uncharitableness,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.64" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.24-Prov.11.26 Bible:Prov.14.31 Bible:Prov.17.5 Bible:Prov.22.9 Bible:Prov.22.16 Bible:Prov.22.22 Bible:Prov.22.23 Bible:Prov.28.27 Bible:Prov.29.7" parsed="|Prov|11|24|11|26;|Prov|14|31|0|0;|Prov|17|5|0|0;|Prov|22|9|0|0;|Prov|22|16|0|0;|Prov|22|22|0|0;|Prov|22|23|0|0;|Prov|28|27|0|0;|Prov|29|7|0|0" passage="Pr 11:24-26,14:31,17:5,22:9,16,22,23,28:27,29:7"><i>ch.</i> xi.
|
||
24-26; xiv. 31; xvii. 5; xxii. 9, 16, 22, 23; xxviii. 27; xxix.
|
||
7</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.65">Of covetousness and contentment, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.66" osisRef="Bible:Prov.11.29 Bible:Prov.15.16-Prov.15.17 Bible:Prov.15.27 Bible:Prov.23.4-Prov.23.5" parsed="|Prov|11|29|0|0;|Prov|15|16|15|17;|Prov|15|27|0|0;|Prov|23|4|23|5" passage="Pr 11:29,15:16,17,27,23:4,5"><i>ch.</i> xi. 29; xv. 16,
|
||
17, 27; xxiii. 4, 5</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.67">Of anger and meekness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.68" osisRef="Bible:Prov.12.16 Bible:Prov.14.17 Bible:Prov.14.29 Bible:Prov.15.1 Bible:Prov.15.18 Bible:Prov.16.32 Bible:Prov.17.12 Bible:Prov.17.26" parsed="|Prov|12|16|0|0;|Prov|14|17|0|0;|Prov|14|29|0|0;|Prov|15|1|0|0;|Prov|15|18|0|0;|Prov|16|32|0|0;|Prov|17|12|0|0;|Prov|17|26|0|0" passage="Pr 12:16,14:17,29,15:1,18,16:32,17:12,26"><i>ch.</i> xii. 16; xiv.
|
||
17, 29; xv. 1, 18; xvi. 32; xvii. 12, 26</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.69" osisRef="Bible:Prov.19.11 Bible:Prov.19.19 Bible:Prov.22.24-Prov.22.25 Bible:Prov.25.15 Bible:Prov.25.28 Bible:Prov.26.21 Bible:Prov.29.22" parsed="|Prov|19|11|0|0;|Prov|19|19|0|0;|Prov|22|24|22|25;|Prov|25|15|0|0;|Prov|25|28|0|0;|Prov|26|21|0|0;|Prov|29|22|0|0" passage="Pr 19:11,19,22:24,25,25:15,28,26:21,29:22">xix. 11, 19;
|
||
xxii. 24, 25; xxv. 15, 28; xxvi. 21; xxix. 22</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.70">Of melancholy and cheerfulness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.71" osisRef="Bible:Prov.12.25 Bible:Prov.14.10 Bible:Prov.14.13 Bible:Prov.15.13 Bible:Prov.15.15 Bible:Prov.17.22 Bible:Prov.18.14 Bible:Prov.25.20 Bible:Prov.25.25" parsed="|Prov|12|25|0|0;|Prov|14|10|0|0;|Prov|14|13|0|0;|Prov|15|13|0|0;|Prov|15|15|0|0;|Prov|17|22|0|0;|Prov|18|14|0|0;|Prov|25|20|0|0;|Prov|25|25|0|0" passage="Pr 12:25,14:10,13,15:13,15,17:22,18:14,25:20,25"><i>ch.</i> xii.
|
||
25; xiv. 10, 13; xv. 13, 15; xvii. 22; xviii. 14; xxv. 20,
|
||
25</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.72">Of hope and expectation, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.73" osisRef="Bible:Prov.13.12 Bible:Prov.13.19" parsed="|Prov|13|12|0|0;|Prov|13|19|0|0" passage="Pr 13:12,19"><i>ch.</i> xiii. 12, 19</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.74">Of prudence and foolishness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.75" osisRef="Bible:Prov.13.16 Bible:Prov.14.8 Bible:Prov.14.18 Bible:Prov.14.33 Bible:Prov.15.14 Bible:Prov.15.21 Bible:Prov.16.21-Prov.16.22 Bible:Prov.17.24" parsed="|Prov|13|16|0|0;|Prov|14|8|0|0;|Prov|14|18|0|0;|Prov|14|33|0|0;|Prov|15|14|0|0;|Prov|15|21|0|0;|Prov|16|21|16|22;|Prov|17|24|0|0" passage="Pr 13:16,14:8,18,33,15:14,21,16:21,22,17:24"><i>ch.</i> xiii. 16;
|
||
xiv. 8, 18, 33; xv. 14, 21; xvi. 21, 22; xvii. 24</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.76" osisRef="Bible:Prov.18.2 Bible:Prov.18.15 Bible:Prov.24.3-Prov.24.7 Bible:Prov.7.27 Bible:Prov.26.6-Prov.26.11 Bible:Prov.28.5" parsed="|Prov|18|2|0|0;|Prov|18|15|0|0;|Prov|24|3|24|7;|Prov|7|27|0|0;|Prov|26|6|26|11;|Prov|28|5|0|0" passage="Pr 18:2,15,24:3-7,7:27,26:6-11,28:5">xviii. 2,
|
||
15; xxiv. 3-7; vii. 27; xxvi. 6-11; xxviii. 5</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.77">Of treachery and fidelity, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.78" osisRef="Bible:Prov.13.17 Bible:Prov.25.13 Bible:Prov.25.19" parsed="|Prov|13|17|0|0;|Prov|25|13|0|0;|Prov|25|19|0|0" passage="Pr 13:17,25:13,19"><i>ch.</i> xiii. 17; xxv. 13,
|
||
19</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.79">Of good and bad company, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.80" osisRef="Bible:Prov.13.20 Bible:Prov.14.7 Bible:Prov.28.7 Bible:Prov.29.3" parsed="|Prov|13|20|0|0;|Prov|14|7|0|0;|Prov|28|7|0|0;|Prov|29|3|0|0" passage="Pr 13:20,14:7,28:7,29:3"><i>ch.</i> xiii. 20; xiv. 7; xxviii. 7;
|
||
xxix. 3</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.81">Of the education of children, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.82" osisRef="Bible:Prov.13.24 Bible:Prov.19.18 Bible:Prov.20.11 Bible:Prov.22.6 Bible:Prov.22.15 Bible:Prov.23.12 Bible:Prov.14.14 Bible:Prov.29.15 Bible:Prov.29.17" parsed="|Prov|13|24|0|0;|Prov|19|18|0|0;|Prov|20|11|0|0;|Prov|22|6|0|0;|Prov|22|15|0|0;|Prov|23|12|0|0;|Prov|14|14|0|0;|Prov|29|15|0|0;|Prov|29|17|0|0" passage="Pr 13:24,19:18,20:11,22:6,15,23:12,14:14,29:15,17"><i>ch.</i>
|
||
xiii. 24; xix. 18; xx. 11; xxii. 6, 15; xxiii. 12; xiv. 14; xxix.
|
||
15, 17</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.83">Of the fear of the Lord, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.84" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.2 Bible:Prov.14.26 Bible:Prov.14.27 Bible:Prov.15.16 Bible:Prov.15.33 Bible:Prov.16.6 Bible:Prov.19.23 Bible:Prov.22.4 Bible:Prov.23.17-Prov.23.18" parsed="|Prov|14|2|0|0;|Prov|14|26|0|0;|Prov|14|27|0|0;|Prov|15|16|0|0;|Prov|15|33|0|0;|Prov|16|6|0|0;|Prov|19|23|0|0;|Prov|22|4|0|0;|Prov|23|17|23|18" passage="Pr 14:2,26,27,15:16,33,16:6,19:23,22:4,23:17,18"><i>ch.</i> xiv.
|
||
2, 26, 27; xv. 16, 33; xvi. 6; xix. 23; xxii. 4; xxiii. 17,
|
||
18</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.85">Of true and false witness-bearing, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.86" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.5 Bible:Prov.14.25 Bible:Prov.19.5 Bible:Prov.19.9 Bible:Prov.19.28 Bible:Prov.21.28 Bible:Prov.24.28 Bible:Prov.25.18" parsed="|Prov|14|5|0|0;|Prov|14|25|0|0;|Prov|19|5|0|0;|Prov|19|9|0|0;|Prov|19|28|0|0;|Prov|21|28|0|0;|Prov|24|28|0|0;|Prov|25|18|0|0" passage="Pr 14:5,25,19:5,9,28,21:28,24:28,25:18"><i>ch.</i> xiv. 5,
|
||
25; xix. 5, 9, 28; xxi. 28; xxiv. 28; xxv. 18</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.87">Of scorners, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.88" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.6 Bible:Prov.14.9 Bible:Prov.21.24 Bible:Prov.22.10 Bible:Prov.24.9 Bible:Prov.29.9" parsed="|Prov|14|6|0|0;|Prov|14|9|0|0;|Prov|21|24|0|0;|Prov|22|10|0|0;|Prov|24|9|0|0;|Prov|29|9|0|0" passage="Pr 14:6,9,21:24,22:10,24:9,29:9"><i>ch.</i> xiv. 6, 9; xxi. 24;
|
||
xxii. 10; xxiv. 9; xxix. 9</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.89">Of credulity and caution, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.90" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.15-Prov.14.16 Bible:Prov.27.12" parsed="|Prov|14|15|14|16;|Prov|27|12|0|0" passage="Pr 14:15,16,27:12"><i>ch.</i> xiv. 15, 16; xxvii.
|
||
12</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.91">Of kings and their subjects, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.92" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.28 Bible:Prov.14.34 Bible:Prov.14.35 Bible:Prov.16.10 Bible:Prov.16.12-Prov.16.15 Bible:Prov.19.6 Bible:Prov.19.12 Bible:Prov.20.2 Bible:Prov.20.8 Bible:Prov.20.26 Bible:Prov.20.28" parsed="|Prov|14|28|0|0;|Prov|14|34|0|0;|Prov|14|35|0|0;|Prov|16|10|0|0;|Prov|16|12|16|15;|Prov|19|6|0|0;|Prov|19|12|0|0;|Prov|20|2|0|0;|Prov|20|8|0|0;|Prov|20|26|0|0;|Prov|20|28|0|0" passage="Pr 14:28,34,35,16:10,12-15,19:6,12,20:2,8,26,28"><i>ch.</i> xiv.
|
||
28, 34, 35; xvi. 10, 12-15; xix. 6, 12; xx. 2, 8, 26,
|
||
28</scripRef>; <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.93" osisRef="Bible:Prov.22.11 Bible:Prov.24.23-Prov.24.25 Bible:Prov.30.2-Prov.30.5 Bible:Prov.28.2-Prov.28.3 Bible:Prov.28.15 Bible:Prov.28.16 Bible:Prov.29.5 Bible:Prov.29.12 Bible:Prov.29.14 Bible:Prov.29.26" parsed="|Prov|22|11|0|0;|Prov|24|23|24|25;|Prov|30|2|30|5;|Prov|28|2|28|3;|Prov|28|15|0|0;|Prov|28|16|0|0;|Prov|29|5|0|0;|Prov|29|12|0|0;|Prov|29|14|0|0;|Prov|29|26|0|0" passage="Pr 22:11,24:23-25,30:2-5,28:2,3,15,16,29:5,12,14,26">xxii. 11;
|
||
xxiv. 23-25; xxx. 2-5; xxviii. 2, 3, 15, 16; xxix. 5, 12, 14,
|
||
26</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.94">Of envy, especially envying sinners, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.95" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.30 Bible:Prov.23.17-Prov.23.18 Bible:Prov.24.1-Prov.24.2 Bible:Prov.24.19 Bible:Prov.24.20 Bible:Prov.27.4" parsed="|Prov|14|30|0|0;|Prov|23|17|23|18;|Prov|24|1|24|2;|Prov|24|19|0|0;|Prov|24|20|0|0;|Prov|27|4|0|0" passage="Pr 14:30,23:17,18,24:1,2,19,20,27:4"><i>ch.</i> xiv. 30;
|
||
xxiii. 17, 18; xxiv. 1, 2, 19, 20; xxvii. 4</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.96">Of God's omniscience, and his universal
|
||
providence, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.97" osisRef="Bible:Prov.15.3 Bible:Prov.15.11 Bible:Prov.16.1 Bible:Prov.16.4 Bible:Prov.16.9 Bible:Prov.16.33 Bible:Prov.17.3 Bible:Prov.19.21 Bible:Prov.20.12 Bible:Prov.20.24" parsed="|Prov|15|3|0|0;|Prov|15|11|0|0;|Prov|16|1|0|0;|Prov|16|4|0|0;|Prov|16|9|0|0;|Prov|16|33|0|0;|Prov|17|3|0|0;|Prov|19|21|0|0;|Prov|20|12|0|0;|Prov|20|24|0|0" passage="Pr 15:3,11,16:1,4,9,33,17:3,19:21,20:12,24"><i>ch.</i> xv. 3, 11;
|
||
xvi. 1, 4, 9, 33; xvii. 3; xix. 21; xx. 12, 24</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.98" osisRef="Bible:Prov.21.1 Bible:Prov.21.30 Bible:Prov.21.31 Bible:Prov.29.26" parsed="|Prov|21|1|0|0;|Prov|21|30|0|0;|Prov|21|31|0|0;|Prov|29|26|0|0" passage="Pr 21:1,30,31,29:26">xxi. 1, 30, 31; xxix.
|
||
26</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.99">Of a good and ill name, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.100" osisRef="Bible:Prov.15.30 Bible:Prov.22.1" parsed="|Prov|15|30|0|0;|Prov|22|1|0|0" passage="Pr 15:30,22:1"><i>ch.</i> xv. 30; xxii. 1</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.101">Of men's good opinion of themselves, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.102" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.12 Bible:Prov.16.2 Bible:Prov.16.25 Bible:Prov.20.6 Bible:Prov.21.2 Bible:Prov.26.12 Bible:Prov.28.26" parsed="|Prov|14|12|0|0;|Prov|16|2|0|0;|Prov|16|25|0|0;|Prov|20|6|0|0;|Prov|21|2|0|0;|Prov|26|12|0|0;|Prov|28|26|0|0" passage="Pr 14:12,16:2,25,20:6,21:2,26:12,28:26"><i>ch.</i> xiv.
|
||
12; xvi. 2, 25; xx. 6; xxi. 2; xxvi. 12; xxviii.
|
||
26</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.103">Of devotion towards God, and dependence on him,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.104" passage="Pr 16:3,18:10,23:26,27:1,28:25,29:25"><i>ch.</i>
|
||
xvi. 3; xviii. 10; xxiii. 26; xxvii. 1; xxviii. 25; xxix.
|
||
25</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.105">Of the happiness of God's favour, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.106" osisRef="Bible:Prov.16.7 Bible:Prov.29.26" parsed="|Prov|16|7|0|0;|Prov|29|26|0|0" passage="Pr 16:7,29:26"><i>ch.</i> xvi. 7; xxix.
|
||
26</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.107">Excitements to get wisdom, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.108" osisRef="Bible:Prov.16.16 Bible:Prov.18.1 Bible:Prov.19.8 Bible:Prov.19.20 Bible:Prov.22.17-Prov.22.21 Bible:Prov.23.15-Prov.23.16 Bible:Prov.23.22-Prov.23.25" parsed="|Prov|16|16|0|0;|Prov|18|1|0|0;|Prov|19|8|0|0;|Prov|19|20|0|0;|Prov|22|17|22|21;|Prov|23|15|23|16;|Prov|23|22|23|25" passage="Pr 16:16,18:1,19:8,20,22:17-21,23:15,16,22-25"><i>ch.</i> xvi. 16;
|
||
xviii. 1; xix. 8, 20; xxii. 17-21; xxiii. 15, 16, 22-25</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.109" osisRef="Bible:Prov.24.13-Prov.24.14 Bible:Prov.27.11" parsed="|Prov|24|13|24|14;|Prov|27|11|0|0" passage="Pr 24:13,14,27:11">xxiv. 13, 14; xxvii.
|
||
11</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.110">Cautions against temptations, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.111" osisRef="Bible:Prov.16.17 Bible:Prov.29.27" parsed="|Prov|16|17|0|0;|Prov|29|27|0|0" passage="Pr 16:17,29:27"><i>ch.</i> xvi. 17; xxix. 27</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.112">Of old age and youth, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.113" osisRef="Bible:Prov.16.31 Bible:Prov.17.6 Bible:Prov.20.29" parsed="|Prov|16|31|0|0;|Prov|17|6|0|0;|Prov|20|29|0|0" passage="Pr 16:31,17:6,20:29"><i>ch.</i> xvi. 31; xvii. 6; xx.
|
||
29</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.114">Of servants, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.115" osisRef="Bible:Prov.17.2 Bible:Prov.19.10 Bible:Prov.29.19 Bible:Prov.29.21" parsed="|Prov|17|2|0|0;|Prov|19|10|0|0;|Prov|29|19|0|0;|Prov|29|21|0|0" passage="Pr 17:2,19:10,29:19,21"><i>ch.</i> xvii. 2; xix. 10; xxix. 19,
|
||
21</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.116">Of bribery, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.117" osisRef="Bible:Prov.17.8 Bible:Prov.17.23 Bible:Prov.18.16 Bible:Prov.21.14 Bible:Prov.28.21" parsed="|Prov|17|8|0|0;|Prov|17|23|0|0;|Prov|18|16|0|0;|Prov|21|14|0|0;|Prov|28|21|0|0" passage="Pr 17:8,23,18:16,21:14,28:21"><i>ch.</i> xvii. 8, 23; xviii. 16;
|
||
xxi. 14; xxviii. 21</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.118">Of reproof and correction, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.119" osisRef="Bible:Prov.17.10 Bible:Prov.19.25 Bible:Prov.19.29 Bible:Prov.20.30 Bible:Prov.21.11 Bible:Prov.25.12 Bible:Prov.26.3" parsed="|Prov|17|10|0|0;|Prov|19|25|0|0;|Prov|19|29|0|0;|Prov|20|30|0|0;|Prov|21|11|0|0;|Prov|25|12|0|0;|Prov|26|3|0|0" passage="Pr 17:10,19:25,29,20:30,21:11,25:12,26:3"><i>ch.</i> xvii. 10;
|
||
xix. 25, 29; xx. 30; xxi. 11; xxv. 12; xxvi. 3</scripRef>;
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.120" osisRef="Bible:Prov.27.5-Prov.27.6 Bible:Prov.27.22 Bible:Prov.28.23 Bible:Prov.29.1" parsed="|Prov|27|5|27|6;|Prov|27|22|0|0;|Prov|28|23|0|0;|Prov|29|1|0|0" passage="Pr 27:5,6,22,28:23,29:1">xxvii. 5, 6, 22;
|
||
xxviii. 23; xxix. 1</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.121">Of ingratitude, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.122" osisRef="Bible:Prov.17.13" parsed="|Prov|17|13|0|0" passage="Pr 17:13"><i>ch.</i> xvii. 13</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.123">Of friendship, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.124" passage="Pr 17:17,18:24,27:9,10,14,17"><i>ch.</i> xvii. 17; xviii. 24;
|
||
xxvii. 9, 10, 14, 17</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.125">Of sensual pleasures, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.126" osisRef="Bible:Prov.21.17 Bible:Prov.23.1-Prov.23.3 Bible:Prov.23.6-Prov.23.8 Bible:Prov.23.19-Prov.23.21 Bible:Prov.27.7" parsed="|Prov|21|17|0|0;|Prov|23|1|23|3;|Prov|23|6|23|8;|Prov|23|19|23|21;|Prov|27|7|0|0" passage="Pr 21:17,23:1-3,6-8,19-21,27:7"><i>ch.</i> xxi. 17; xxiii. 1-3,
|
||
6-8, 19-21; xxvii. 7</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.127">Of drunkenness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.128" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.1 Bible:Prov.23.23 Bible:Prov.23.29-Prov.23.35" parsed="|Prov|20|1|0|0;|Prov|23|23|0|0;|Prov|23|29|23|35" passage="Pr 20:1,23:23,29-35"><i>ch.</i> xx. 1; xxiii. 23,
|
||
29-35</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.129">Of the universal corruption of nature, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.130" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.9" parsed="|Prov|20|9|0|0" passage="Pr 20:9"><i>ch.</i> xx. 9</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.131">Of flattery, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.132" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.19 Bible:Prov.26.28 Bible:Prov.28.23 Bible:Prov.29.5" parsed="|Prov|20|19|0|0;|Prov|26|28|0|0;|Prov|28|23|0|0;|Prov|29|5|0|0" passage="Pr 20:19,26:28,28:23,29:5"><i>ch.</i> xx. 19; xxvi. 28; xxviii.
|
||
23; xxix. 5</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.133">Of undutiful children, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.134" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.20 Bible:Prov.28.24" parsed="|Prov|20|20|0|0;|Prov|28|24|0|0" passage="Pr 20:20,28:24"><i>ch.</i> xx. 20; xxviii. 24</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.135">Of the short continuance of what is ill-gotten,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.136" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.21 Bible:Prov.21.6-Prov.21.7 Bible:Prov.22.8 Bible:Prov.28.8" parsed="|Prov|20|21|0|0;|Prov|21|6|21|7;|Prov|22|8|0|0;|Prov|28|8|0|0" passage="Pr 20:21,21:6,7,22:8,28:8"><i>ch.</i> xx. 21;
|
||
xxi. 6, 7; xxii. 8; xxviii. 8</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.137">Of revenge, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.138" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.22 Bible:Prov.24.17-Prov.24.18 Bible:Prov.24.29" parsed="|Prov|20|22|0|0;|Prov|24|17|24|18;|Prov|24|29|0|0" passage="Pr 20:22,24:17,18,29"><i>ch.</i> xx. 22; xxiv. 17, 18,
|
||
29</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.139">Of sacrilege, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.140" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.25" parsed="|Prov|20|25|0|0" passage="Pr 20:25"><i>ch.</i> xx. 25</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.141">Of conscience, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.142" osisRef="Bible:Prov.20.27 Bible:Prov.27.19" parsed="|Prov|20|27|0|0;|Prov|27|19|0|0" passage="Pr 20:27,27:19"><i>ch.</i> xx. 27; xxvii. 19</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.143">Of the preference of moral duties before
|
||
ceremonial, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.144" osisRef="Bible:Prov.15.8 Bible:Prov.21.3 Bible:Prov.21.27" parsed="|Prov|15|8|0|0;|Prov|21|3|0|0;|Prov|21|27|0|0" passage="Pr 15:8,21:3,27"><i>ch.</i> xv. 8;
|
||
xxi. 3, 27</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.145">Of prodigality and wastefulness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.146" osisRef="Bible:Prov.21.20" parsed="|Prov|21|20|0|0" passage="Pr 21:20"><i>ch.</i> xxi. 20</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.147">The triumphs of wisdom and godliness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.148" osisRef="Bible:Prov.21.22 Bible:Prov.24.15-Prov.24.16" parsed="|Prov|21|22|0|0;|Prov|24|15|24|16" passage="Pr 21:22,24:15,16"><i>ch.</i> xxi. 22; xxiv. 15,
|
||
16</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.149">Of frowardness and tractableness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.150" osisRef="Bible:Prov.22.5" parsed="|Prov|22|5|0|0" passage="Pr 22:5"><i>ch.</i> xxii. 5</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.151">Of uncleanness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.152" osisRef="Bible:Prov.22.14 Bible:Prov.23.27-Prov.23.28" parsed="|Prov|22|14|0|0;|Prov|23|27|23|28" passage="Pr 22:14,23:27,28"><i>ch.</i> xxii. 14; xxiii. 27,
|
||
28</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.153">Of fainting in affliction, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.154" osisRef="Bible:Prov.24.10" parsed="|Prov|24|10|0|0" passage="Pr 24:10"><i>ch.</i> xxiv. 10</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.155">Of helping the distressed, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.156" osisRef="Bible:Prov.14.11-Prov.14.12" parsed="|Prov|14|11|14|12" passage="Pr 14:11,12"><i>ch.</i> xiv. 11, 12</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.157">Of loyalty to the government, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.158" osisRef="Bible:Prov.24.21-Prov.24.22" parsed="|Prov|24|21|24|22" passage="Pr 24:21,22"><i>ch.</i> xxiv. 21, 22</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.159">Of forgiving enemies, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.160" osisRef="Bible:Prov.25.21-Prov.25.22" parsed="|Prov|25|21|25|22" passage="Pr 25:21,22"><i>ch.</i> xxv. 21, 22</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.161">Of causeless curse, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.162" osisRef="Bible:Prov.26.2" parsed="|Prov|26|2|0|0" passage="Pr 26:2"><i>ch.</i> xxvi. 2</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.163">Of answering fools, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.164" osisRef="Bible:Prov.26.4-Prov.26.5" parsed="|Prov|26|4|26|5" passage="Pr 26:4,5"><i>ch.</i> xxvi. 4, 5</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.165">Of unsettledness and unsatisfiedness, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.166" osisRef="Bible:Prov.27.8 Bible:Prov.27.20" parsed="|Prov|27|8|0|0;|Prov|27|20|0|0" passage="Pr 27:8,20"><i>ch.</i> xxvii. 8, 20</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.167">Of cowardliness and courage, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.168" osisRef="Bible:Prov.28.1" parsed="|Prov|28|1|0|0" passage="Pr 28:1"><i>ch.</i> xxviii. 1</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.169">The people's interest in the character of their
|
||
rulers, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.170" osisRef="Bible:Prov.28.12 Bible:Prov.28.28 Bible:Prov.29.2 Bible:Prov.29.16 Bible:Prov.11.10-Prov.11.11" parsed="|Prov|28|12|0|0;|Prov|28|28|0|0;|Prov|29|2|0|0;|Prov|29|16|0|0;|Prov|11|10|11|11" passage="Pr 28:12,28,29:2,16,11:10,11"><i>ch.</i>
|
||
xxviii. 12, 28; xxix. 2, 16; xi. 10, 11</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.171">The benefit of repentance and holy fear,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.172" osisRef="Bible:Prov.28.13-Prov.28.14" parsed="|Prov|28|13|28|14" passage="Pr 28:13,14"><i>ch.</i> xxviii. 13,
|
||
14</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.173">The punishment of murder, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.174" osisRef="Bible:Prov.28.17" parsed="|Prov|28|17|0|0" passage="Pr 28:17"><i>ch.</i> xxviii. 17</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.175">Of hastening to be rich, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.176" osisRef="Bible:Prov.28.20 Bible:Prov.28.22" parsed="|Prov|28|20|0|0;|Prov|28|22|0|0" passage="Pr 28:20,22"><i>ch.</i> xxviii. 20, 22</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.177">The enmity of the wicked against the godly,
|
||
<scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.178" osisRef="Bible:Prov.29.10 Bible:Prov.29.27" parsed="|Prov|29|10|0|0;|Prov|29|27|0|0" passage="Pr 29:10,27"><i>ch.</i> xxix. 10,
|
||
27</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
<li class="small" id="Prov.xxxii-p23.179">The necessity of the means of grace, <scripRef id="Prov.xxxii-p23.180" osisRef="Bible:Prov.29.18" parsed="|Prov|29|18|0|0" passage="Pr 29:18"><i>ch.</i> xxix. 18</scripRef>.</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</div></div2> |