INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 6
"It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion" "See what care God, in his word, has taken to make men good husbands of their estates, & to teach them prudence in the management of them." "...learn wisdom, consider, & be wise; that is the thing we are to aim at in all our learning, not only to be knowing, but to be wise." "We must prepare for hereafter, & not mind the present time only." "Poverty & want will certainly come upon those that are slothful in the service of God" "God hates sin; he hates every sin" "But there are some sins which he does in a special manner hate" "...pride is the first" "God sees the pride in the heart & hates it there" "Falsehood, & fraud..." "God & all good men hate & abhor lying." "Cruelty & blood-thirstiness." "...wisdom to do evil, a heart that designs & a head that devises wicked imaginations." "Vigour & diligence in the prosecution of sin - feet that are swift in running to mischief" "False-witness bearing." "The word of God reveals to us truths of eternal certainty, & is built upon the highest reason." "We must retain the word of God & the good instructions which our parents gave us out of it." "We must make use of the word of God & of the benefit that is designed us by it." "If we govern ourselves by the precepts of the word all day, & make conscience of the duty God has commanded to us, we may shelter ourselves under the promises of the word at night, & take the comfort of the deliverances God does & will command for us." "Those that will be wrought upon by flattery make themselves a very easy prey to the tempter" "He that commits adultery is in the high road to destruction." "The fire of lust kindles the fire of hell." "Stand in awe therefore, & sin not; expose not thyself to all this misery for a moment's sordid pleasure, which will be bitterness in the end." CHAPTER 7 "Where sin was written (Jer. 17:1) let the word of God be written." "We must make the word of God familiar to us, consult it, & consult its honour, & take a pleasure in conversing with it." "Those become an easy prey to Satan, who, when they have arrived to the stature of men, have scarcely the understanding of children." "We must take heed, not only of idle days, but of idle evenings, lest they prove inlets to temptation." "True love is from heaven; this is from hell. How can those pretend to solace themselves & love one another who are really ruining themselves & one another?" "The bird that hastes to the snare looks only at the bait, & promises herself a good bit from that, & considers not that it is for her life. Thus this unthinking unwary young man dreams of nothing but the pleasures he shall have in the embraces of the harlot, while really he is running headlong upon his ruin." "Let reason, & conscience, & the fear of God ruling in the heart, check the inclinations of the sensual appetite." "...the flames of lust, if not quenched by repentance & mortification, will burn to the lowest hell. Therefore stand in awe & sin not." CHAPTER 8 "Wisdom speaks openly; truth seeks no corners, but gladly appeals to the light." "When sinners leave their sins, & become truly... (in covenant-love relationship w/ Jesus Christ), then the simple understand wisdom." "Lying is wickedness, & we should not only refrain from it, but it should be an abomination to us, & as far from what we say as from what God says to us." "Instruction must not only be heard, but received." "We must receive instruction as the main matter, & then be indifferent whether we receive silver or no" "Divine wisdom gives men good heads." "Wherever there is an awe of God there is a dread of sin." "Conceitedness of ourselves, pride & arrogancy, are sins which Christ hates, & so do all those who have the Spirit of Christ" "Where the word of God dwells richly, it makes a man perfect & furnishes him thoroughly for every good word & work." "This is that fruit of wisdom which is better than gold, than fine gold, it leads us in the way of righteousness, shows us that way & goes before us in it, the way that God would have us walk in & which will certainly bring us to our desired end." "In Wisdom's promises believers have goods laid up, not for days & years, but for eternity; her fruit therefore is better than gold." "We must be diligent hearers of the word" "Read the word written, sit under the word preached, bless God for both, & hear him in both speaking to you." "It is not enough to be hearken unto Wisdom's words, but we must keep here ways, do every thing that she prescribes, keep within the hedges of her ways, & not transgress them, keep in the tracks of her ways, proceed & preserve in them." "Those are blessed that watch & wait at Wisdom's gates" "Those that are at variance with Christ are in love with their own ruin." CHAPTER 9 "Heaven is the house which Wisdom has built to entertain all her guests that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb" "Our Saviour came, not to call the righteous but sinners, not the wise in their own eyes, who say the see (John 9:41) but the simple, those who are sensible of their simplicity & ashamed of it, & him that is willing to become a fool, that he may be wise. I Corinthians 3:18." "The first step towards virtue is to shun vice, & therefore to shun the vicious." "It is not enough to forsake the foolish, but we must join ourselves with those that walk in wisdom, & walk in the same spirit & steps." "The word of God is intended, & therefore so is the ministry of that word, for reproof, for correction, & for instruction in righteousness." "It is as great an instance of wisdom to take a reproof well as to give it well" "None must think themselves too wise to learn, nor so good that they need not be better & therefore need not be taught." "The pleasures of prohibited lusts are boasted of as more relishing than those of prescribed love; & dishonest gain is preferred to that which is justly gotten." "Sweetness & pleasantness constitute the bait" "Terrors attend those pleasures like the terrors of death itself." "The depths of Satan are the depths of hell. Remorseless sin is remediless ruin; it is the bottomless pit already." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 820 - 842.
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