...Yet if 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 1...

...down. — Eccles. x. 18. As the door turneth upon its hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed,&c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. — Prov. xxvi. 14. 16. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth...

...generally ; yield ; surrender ; exhibit a surrender. Will ye renibr me a recompense'! foel iii. 4. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Prtmrbs. I heard Mm speak of that same brother. And be did render him the most unnatural That lived...

...itself, or from those who are under it. Fools are not sensible of their folly. Solomon says, " The fool is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason."* The most barbarous and brutish heathens are not sensible of their own darkness ; are not sensible but...

...there is nothing farther that they can learn. '* The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: and even a sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." Let me, therefore, earnestly entreat all who peruse these pages, seriously to examine the foundation...

...itself, or from those who are under it. Fools are not sensible of their folly. Solomon says, " The fool is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason."* The most barbarous and brutish heathens are not sensible of their own darkness ; are not sensible but...

...taught to hear and read only on one side. It is the confidence of the sluggard mentioned by Soloman, ' wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' Besides, we hold that all true liberality is founded in a proper distrust of our own judgment ; in...

...conceited, yea needs must be so ; but he Prov. xxvi. can never be wise : A sluggard, saith Solomon, /* wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. This conceit of wisdom is a natural issue of his ignorance ; and it is indeed no small part of his...

...that pleasure, or to introduce another less satisfactory? thus 'is the sluggard,' as Solomon saith, ' wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' It rendereth us very rash and precipitant in judging ; for the first shows of things, or the most slender...

...and candid examination, and with a clear conception of the grounds on which they are formed : — " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." The process of mind which we call reason or judgment, therefore, seems to be essentially the same,...