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"Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy NEIGHBOR hath put thee to shame." Prov. xxv. 8. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy NEIGHBOR." Exod. xx. 16. "If any man come presumptuously upon his NEIGHBOR to slay him with guile." Exod. xxi. 14. In these, and in scores of similar cases, Rea is the original word.
No other but such a constitution and investiture, can either be approven of by God, or answer the ends, ultimate or subordinate, of this ordinance, unto the honor of the great institutor, as appears from Prov. viii, 15, 16; Psa. cxlvii, 19, 20, and cxlix, G, 7, 8, 9; Isa. xlix, 23; Rom. xiii, 1, 2, 3, 4; Deut. xvii, 14, 15; 2 Sam. xxiii, 2, 3, 4; Exod. xviii, 21. Confess, chap. 23, § 1.
The reason assigned for taking them, is not that such was Abraham's direction, but that the servant had discretionary control. Servants had also discretionary power in the disposal of property. See Gen. xxiv. 22, 23, 53. The condition of Ziba in the house of Mephibosheth, is a case in point. So in Prov. xvii. 2.
In the information taken in Granada, the Mother Anne of the Incarnation says she saw the Saint one night, while writing the Fortress of the Soul, with her face shining; and Mary of St. Prov. viii. 31: "Deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum." Instructions for Those Who Have Attained to the Prayer of Quiet. Many Advance So Far, but Few Go Farther. Let us now go back to the subject.
The highest honor one can bestow upon his friend is to make him his counselor. It is no mark of weakness to rely upon counsel. God, Himself, needed a counselor, so he chose His Son. "His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Isa. ix, 6. Counsel, says Solomon, is the key to stability. "Every purpose is established by Counsel." Prov.
Remember, I know more of school than you." The two boys strolled on silently. That night Eric knelt at his bedside, and prayed as he had not done for many a long day. "In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night." PROV. vii. 9. At Roslyn, even in summer, the hour for going to bed was half-past nine.
There was a deep light in his steady eyes, and a grim setting to his lips. "I'm going to collect that harvest," he said, with a deliberate emphasis. "If you don't know it you should. But I'm collecting it my way. I'm going to marry Jessie, if your old friend Prov don't butt in. But I'm going to cut the ground under the feet of the other feller my own way, first. I've got to do that. I've a notion.
May He Himself save us from our self-delusions, whatever they are, and enable us to give up this world, that we may gain the next; and to rejoice in Him, who had no home of His own, no place to lay His head, who was poor and lowly, and despised and rejected, and tormented and slain! Prov. xvii. 16. John iii. 3. The World our Enemy.
"Thank you," the captain said feelingly. "It is some relief to her unhappy father to learn of the least extenuating circumstance." "Anger resteth in the bosom of fools." ECCLES. vii. 9. "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." PROV. xxii. 15.
Its full title was as follows; "Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against 'The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Wherein the trivial Author of that Answer is discovver'd, the licenser conferr'd with, and the Opinion which they traduce defended. By the former author, J. M. Prov. xxvi. 5. Answer a Fool according to his folly, lest hee bee wise in his own conceit. Printed in the year 1645."
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