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This also is fulfilled in these kind of men; at the end of their way is death and hell, notwithstanding their confidence in the goodness of their state. Again, "There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing;" Prov. xiii. 7.
Should not this be a strong inducement to all of us, to lay hold on and grip to him, who is the truth, and only the truth? seeing, All other ways which we can take, will prove a lie to us in the end. He is substance, and no shadow, and all that love him shall inherit substance; for he will fill all their treasures, Prov. viii. 21.
You that are verteous rise! you that have fathers! Ho, Master Provost! ô my deerest father. Some Surgeons, Surgeons! Enter Provost & Servts. Prov. 'Twas the Boyes voice, certaine. Ser. What bloody sight is this? 'has killd himself: Dead, stone-cold dead; he needs no art of Surgeons. Prov. Take of the Boy. Boy. O let me dwell here ever. Prov.
Their interests were far more identified with those of their masters' family. They were often, actually or prospectively, heirs of their masters' estates, as in the case of Eliezer, of Ziba, and the sons of Bilhah, and Zilpah. When there were no sons, or when they were unworthy, bought servants were made heirs. Prov. xvii. 2. We find traces of this usage in the New Testament.
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Prov. xx, i. No one questions that the wine referred to above as unholy and a mocker and unclean, is fermented wine, and no one supposes for a moment that it is unfermented wine.
The next part of our sanctification is in reference to our daily failings and transgressions, committed partly through the violence of temptations, as we see in David and Peter, and other eminent men of God; partly through daily infirmities, because of our weakness and imperfections; for, "in many things we offend all," James iii. 2; and, "if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us," 1 John i. 8; "a righteous man falleth seven times," Prov. xxiv. 16; "there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not," Eccl. vii. 20; and Solomon further saith, 1 Kings viii. 46, "That there is no man that sinneth not."
Mr Coleman did ground an argument upon Psal. xxxiii. 15; Prov. xxvii. 29, which cannot stand with the intent of the Holy Ghost, because contrary to other scriptures and to the truth, as I proved, p. 38. He answereth, in his Re-examination, that my sense may stand, and his may stand too.
Of esteeming highly of every piece of truth for his sake who is the truth; studying it for his sake loving it for his sake holding it fast for his sake witnessing to it, as we are called, for his sake. We should buy the truth, and not sell it, Prov. xxiii. 23; and we should plead for it, and be valiant for it, Isa. lix. 4, 14. Jer. vii. 28; ix. 3.
Ah, well it is said Prov. xx. 24 "Each man's going is of the Lord, what man is there who understandeth his way?" Now when the Princess had read the date for herself, she asked, what had happened to the Duke, his ancestor? To which the Prince replied "Here, in these very bushes, the jealous knight lay concealed, while the Duke was hunting.
*Contigo pan y cebolla*: the Spanish version for 'love in a cottage' has many parallels. Cf. for example two such widely different sources as Prov. xv, 17: "Better a dinner of herbs where love is...," and Omar Khayyam's "A book of verses" etc.
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