...receive the bß ruffian of Wifdom, Jußice, Judgment and Equity, which is the Fear of the Lord ; • to give Subtilty to the Simple, to the young Man Knowledge and Difcretion : Fur, fays he, Wifdom promt feth Godlinefs to her Children, air cuing their Ways, that...

...words of understanding ; to receive the instruction, of wisdom, justice, and judgrrient, and equity ; to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion '*. Nor is there perhaps a moral writer, ancient or modern, from whom a prudent man may not collect...

...to do at their very first outset, " the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity. They give subtilty to the simple ; to the young man, knowledge and discretion." The same may be said of the greater part of the book of Ecclesiastes, which also teaches us to form...

...and equity ; that is, to make them good in every circumstance, condition, and relation in life ; .4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion ; they are designed to teach caution and sagacity f the unexperienced ,• but they are not intended...

...words of understanding ; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity ; 4 e the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them : 24 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning ; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise...

...profess to do at the very first outset) "the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity. They give subtilty to the simple ; to the young man knowledge and discretion." The same may be said of the greater part of the book of JEcclesiastes, which also teaches us to form...

...the subordinate helps which are placed within his reach. This method, pursued with diligence, will " give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion j" and will prepare him " to understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and...

...words of understanding ; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity ; 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning ; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise...

...divine laws that had been delivered to them. The design of Solomon in his collection of wise maxims was to "give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and understanding," Prov. i. 4. And children are to be " trained up in the way they should go," ch. xxii....

...trust) will not dispute the account, which the book of Proverbs gives of its own design and tendency. " To give subtilty to the simple *, to the young man knowledge and discretion." For these purposes its plain, sententious, hortatory style is admirably adapted — abstaining from...