...master of a bouse, which bringeth out of his treasury things new and old." I'nov . xviii. 13. " Hethat answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame Unto him." EDITOR'S PRELIMINARY REMARKS THIS great work on Divorce, with the three parasitical treatises, " Tetrachordon,"...

...wrath." (xxi. 24.) Are we tempted to give hasty judgments on insufficient grounds 1 We are taught, " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." (xviii. 13.) Is our wrath easily excited and soon expressed ? We are told, " A fool's wrath is presently...

...them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.' ' HEARING TIII- j : — Pr. xviii. 13, ' He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.' Blihu't conduct -•— Job xxxii. 6, ' And Elihu tlie soil of Barachel the Buzite answered and said,...

...praise of God. Be not rash, wait the end, and then ye shall be allowed to judge : Prov. xviii. 13, " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." But why should ye judge of the web of providence ere it be wrought out ? 3. Fret not at, neither envy...

...things 3 for the best; wisdom is not forward to pronounce before full evidence. (He, saith the Wise Man, that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him*.) In fine, they who proceed thus, as it is usual that they speak falsely, as it is casual that they ever...

...condemn the proceedings of his parent, would be nothing to this. We are told, that if any man judgeth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. What folly and shame is it then to us to attempt to judge of God's conduct, when we know only so small...

...judgments. Even when called to judge, we are not to decide till we have carefully examined the subject — " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." 2 We are not to be presumptuous in our judgments, pronouncing on things beyond our reach — such as...

...defence is often worse than none. Be eure that you understand a matter before you decide upon it. " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and a shame unto him." 16. If you shall fail of eminence in a life of piety, it will probably be as with...

...own conceit. 12. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. 13. He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 14. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; bnt a wounded spirit who can bear ? 15. The heart...

...censuring others before they have heard what they have to say in their defence. And hence it is said, " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him," Proverbs xviii. 13. And the evil of that judging which is censorious, lies, in the second place, in...