 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...of evil. CHAP. II. JVlY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee ; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; 4 If thou seekest... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Christian life - 1816 - 192 pages
...tilings, is not to be acquired without earnest and diligent seeking, (Prov. c. ii. v. 1, 6.) *' My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments...unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; yea,'if thou criest after knowledge, and lifteth up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 568 pages
...practice will be agreeable to the counsel of the wise man, in Prov. ii. at the beginning, " My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments...understanding : If thou seekest her as silver, and searches! for her as for hid treasures : Then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...the words of God, and hide his commandments with thee, and incline thy heart to wisdom, and apply it to understanding ; yea, if thou criest after knowledge,...silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God ; for the Lord giveth wisdom... | |
 | England - 1835 - 866 pages
...before him, he read these verses from the Proverbs. " ' My son, if thou wilt receive my words — " ' So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply...thy voice for understanding ; " ' If thou seekest after her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; " ' Then shalt thou understand the... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1817 - 530 pages
...life, " and they are they which testify of me:"* and also " the instructions of Solomon: " My son, if thou " wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments...and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou cri" est after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for under" standing; if thou seekest her as silver,... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Children - 1817 - 210 pages
...thee : she shall give to thine head an ornament of grace ; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures. Well may be it so ; for the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh understanding. Should our notions... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...thou " wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments u with thee; so that thou incline thine ear to wisdom, *' and apply thine heart to understanding..." voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as sil" ver, and searches! for her as for hidden treasures,; A LEIGH in PARKHURST. " then shalt thou understand... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...the exhortation of the wise man; which each person may regard as if addressed to himself: " My son, if thou " wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments " with thee; so that thou incline thine ear to wisdom, " and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if " thou criest after knowledge, and liftest... | |
 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
...the world, but also the excellency of true wisdom, says^^ftf thou c'iest after knowledge, and lifteth up thy voice for understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her «^/f(>r hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of... | |
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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest... 
