 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...bending the mind, that we may understand what we read and hear. Prov. ii. 1, 2, 5, My son, if thouwilt receive, my words and hide my commandments with thee...incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart unto understanding: then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...divine knowledge we are directed to combine a dependence on God's Spirit with our own researches: " if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy...understanding, if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...your joy may be full*. Innumerable passages concur in speaking the same truth. What says Solomon ? If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy...understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searcheth for her as for hid treasure; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, * Luke, xi.... | |
 | John Owen - Holy Spirit - 1810 - 370 pages
...promise of divine teaching — ' Then shall v'e know, if we follow on to know the Lord.' Hosea vi. 3. ' If thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy...understanding-, if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasure, then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...the children of Abraham did. When they hearken to their pious vet. ii. 40 fathers, saying, " My son, receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee...unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways :"* Then the heart of the children... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...with theej so that thou incline thine eat " unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understand* " ing : yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and " liftest...understanding ; if thou " seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for " hid treasures: then shall thou understand the feaf " of the LORD, and find... | |
 | Henry Venn - Christian life - 1811 - 464 pages
...emphatically expresses the need we must feel of that gift. " If thou criest after knowledge, and liftcst up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searches! for her as for hid treasure." Our Lord points out the same feeling as essential to prayer ; he describes it by asking,... | |
 | Rev. John Thornton - Ethics - 1811 - 106 pages
...attained without diligence. Hear now the counsel which a wise father gave to his son, " If thou crifcst after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding : if thou seekest her as. silver, and searchest for her as hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge... | |
 | Edward Williams - Calvinism - 1812 - 582 pages
...recommend a progressive improvement in it. "My son, if thou * John xvii. 3. en. vn. Concluding Remarks. 529 wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with...understanding; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord ; andjind... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...and mind tq what is spoken. Hence is that counsel of the wise man, Prov. ii. 1, 2. * My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with...unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding.' — People must take care that they be not wandering in their heart while the Lord's words sound before... | |
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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... 
