...Elihu, fetches his knowledge from afar, namely, from the Father of lights; and thence it is that, " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason," Prov. xxvi. 16. That strange sleepy frame that you complain of, and which often comes upon God's people...

...knowledge. Though at the same time, they are conceited enough, Prov. xxvi. 16'. " The slothful man is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." And the worst of all is, it leads to vice. (! The devil finds some mischief still, for idle hands to...

...almost every thing ; scarcely ever intimates that there is a probability that he can be mistaken; ' is wiser, in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' True piety is uniformly modest and unassuming. When ' Ephraim spake tremblingly, he exalted himself...

...the wife man faith, Thejluggard is wifer in his own conceit than /even mm that can render a reafon. It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God fervice ; to gratify his defires, to promote his honour, to advance his interefts; to render his name...

...Yet it is needful in some cases, to * answer a fool according to his folly,' otherwise he will be * wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' I therefore constrained myself to approach as near as I dared, to his own manner of writing. And I...

...slothful hideth his hand in his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 16 The sluggard u wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that tiketh a dog...

...pained at his folly, and use every argument which bids fair to reclaim him ; but all in vain, for " the sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." They point out in the plainest manner his hazard, and the risk which he runs. They warn him of the...

...idleness, but to all the other sins, which he can conveniently practise. • The Sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men, that can render a reason. From this miserable vanity, of which their deplorable mismanagement of their own affairs ought to cure...

...The Jliiggard fjprov. xxvi. tvifer in his own conceit than f even men that can render a l6' reafon. It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God fervice; to gratify his defires, to promote his honour, to advance his interefts ; to render his name...

...faith, The fluggard is Prov. xxri. u/t/er in his own conceit thanjeven men that can render a16' reqfon. It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God fervice; to gratify his defires, to promote his honour, to advance his interefts ; to render his name...