GOOD EXAMPLE.

LXVII. Setting good example. Matt. v. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Col. iv. 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without. 1 Thess. iv. 12. Neh. v. 9. 1 Tim. iv. 12. Be thou an example of believers.

OF ENTICING OTHERS.

LXVIII. Of enticing others, and being enticed to sin. Jer. xx. 10, 11. My familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him. But the Lord is with me; therefore they shall not prevail.

Prov. i. 10. If sinners entice thee, consent thou not. (Ver. 11 to 14.) Ver. 15. Walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path.

xxviii. 10. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit.

Hab. ii. 15. Woe to him that giveth his neighbour drink, and maketh him drunken, &c. Rom. xiv. 13. Let no man put a stumblingblock, or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. Ver. 21. 1 Cor. viii. 9. 12, 13. 2 Cor. xi. 29.

1 Tim. v. 22. Be not partaker of other men's sins keep thyself pure.

Rev. ii. 14. I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doc

stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. Numb. xxv. 1. See False Teachers deceive the people: Commandment Fifth. Instance, Neh. vi. 13.

OF INGRATITUDE.

LXX. Ingratitude. Instances. Gen. xl. 23. Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

Judg. viii. 35. The children of Israel did not shew kindness to the house of Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

Ps. xxxv. 12. They rewarded me evil for good, to the spoiling of my soul. (Ps. xxxviii. 20.-cix. 5.) Ver. 13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.

Ver. 13, 14, 15. I humbled my soul with fasting, I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. But in my adversity they rejoiced. Ps. cix. 4, 5.

Prov. xvii. 13. Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. See 1 Sam. xxiii. 5. 12.-xxv. 21. Jer. xviii. 20, 21. Eccl. ix. 14, 15.

xxiii. 1-3. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee; and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat.

Ver. 20, 21. Be not amongst winebibbers, amongst riotous eaters of flesh. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. xxviii. 7. He that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

xxx. 22. The earth cannot bear a fool when he is full of meat.

Matt. xxiv. 48-51. If the evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Luke vi. 25. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger.

xxi. 34. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Rom. xiii. 13, 14. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness : But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof. 1 Cor. vii. 31. Use this world as not abusing it.

ix. 25. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.-Ver. 27. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Phil. iii. 19. Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.

1 Thess. v. 7, 8. They that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day, be sober. Tit. ii. 12. Live soberly, &c. 1 Pet. iv. 4. The wicked think it strange that ye run not to the same excess of riot.

2 Pet. i. 6. Add to knowledge temperance. ii. 13. They shall receive the reward of unrighteousness that count it pleasure to riot in the day-time; spots they are, and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings. Jude 12. Feeding themselves without fear. See Amos vi. 6.

III Drunkenness; the evils thereof. Prov.

xxiii. 29, 30. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.

Ver. 31-33. Look not on the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright; at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. Ver. 34, 35.

Isa. v. 11. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them.-Ver. 22. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink. Ch. Ivi. 12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink, and to-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

1 Cor. v. 11. I have written to you, If any one that is called a brother, be a drunkard, with such a one not to keep company, nor to eat with him.

vi. 10. Drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are these, adultery, &c.-Ver. 21. Drunkenness, revellings, and such like: they that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Ver. 23.

Eph. v. 18. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.

IV. Of making others drunk. Esther i. 3. 5. King Ahasuerus made a feast unto the nobles and princes, and to all the people that were present.-Ver. 7. And gave them drink, &c. Ver. 8. The drinking was according to law, none did compel; for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

Hab. ii. 15. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!-Ver. 16. Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered, the cup of the Lord's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. See 2 Sam. xi. 13. Isa. lvi. 12.

Unhappy instances of drunkenness.-In Noah, Gen. ix. 21.—In Lot, Gen. xix. 32.— Nabal, 1 Sam. xxv. 36.-Elah, 1 Kings xvi. 9, 10.-Benhadad, 1 Kings xx. 16 to 22.

See Wicked ministers, their drunkenness.

SLEEP.

V. Sleep. Prov. vi. 9-11. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

xx. 13. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

xxiii. 21. Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

xxvi. 14. As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

LABOUR COMMANDED.

VI. Labour commanded, and promises to the laborious, the diligent and industrious. Gen. iii. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.

Exod. xx. 9. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work.

Prov. x. 4. He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

xii. 11. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. Ch. xxviii, 19. Ver. 24. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful shall be under tribute. Ver. 27. The slothful roasteth not that which he took in hunting; but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

xiii. 4. The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Ver. 11. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

xiv. 23. In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. xxi. 5. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty, only to want.

xxii. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men.

his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

1 Thess. iv. 11, 12. We beseech you, that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands: That ye may walk honestly towards them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 2 Thess. iii. 10-12. We commanded you, That if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busy-bodies. Now them that are such, we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread. Ver. 14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 1 Tim. v. 13.

OF THE SLUGGARD.

VII. Of the sluggard, the slothful and idle. See several of the foregoing texts, where these persons are compared with the diligent, &c. Prov. vi. 6-8. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise: which having no guide, overseer or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

x. 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

xv. 19. The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

xviii. 9. He that is slothful in his work, is brother to him that is a great waster.

xix. 15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.Ver. 24. A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth. Ch. xxvi. 15.

xx. 4. The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

xxi. 25. The desire of the slothful killeth him, for his hands refuse to labour. Ch. xiii. 4.

xxii. 13. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. Ch. xxvi. 13. There is a lion in the way, a lion is in the streets.

Eccl. v. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.

xi. 6. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand.

Rom. xii. 11. Be not slothful in business. Eph. iv. 28. Let him that stole steal no

of understanding; and lo! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well, and looked upon it and received instruc tion.

Eccl. x. 18. By much slothfulness the

Job xxviii. 12. Where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?-Ver. 23. The Lord knoweth the place thereof, and the way thereof.-Ver. 20.

Ps. li. 6. In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Ps. cxix. 98, 99, 100.

Prov. ii. 6, 7. The Lord giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous.

Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy.

Ps. ii. 10, 11. Be wise, O ye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the earth.-Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

xxxvii. 30. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. Prov. viii. 8.

Ixiv. 9. They shall wisely consider the Lord's doings.

ci. 2. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way.

cvii. 43. Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. Hos. xiv. 9.

Prov. x. 8. The wise in heart will receive

xv. 24. The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. Ch. xiii. 14.

XII. Wisdom prayed for. 1 Chron. xxii. 12. For Solomon, David prayed thus: The Lord give thee wisdom, that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord. Ps. lxxii. 1.

1 Kings iii. 9. Solomon prayed thus: Lord, give thy servant an understanding heart, that he may judge thy people, and that he may discern between good and bad.-Ver. 11-13. And God said, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment, behold I have done according to thy words, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart. I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour. Ver. 28. Ch. iv. 29.—v. 12. 2 Chron. i. 10. Ps. xc. 12. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Col. i. 9. I pray that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom.

James i. 5. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. Ver. 17.

XIII. Wisdom and religion the same. Deut. iv. 5, 6. I have taught you statutes and judgments. Keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and understanding.

xxxii. 29. O that they were wise, that they understood this; that they would consider. their latter end.

all they that hate me love death.

xxi. 12. The righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked.

Dan. xii. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament.

Ver. 10. The wise shall understand.

Mic. vi. 9. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name.

Matt. vii. 24. He that heareth Christ's sayings, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man. See the parable of the ten virgins, Matt. xxv. 1 to 13.

Rom. xvi. 19. I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Eph. v. 15, 16. Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Col. iii. 16. Let the word of God dwell in you richly, in all wisdom.

iv. 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

2 Tim. iii. 15. The holy Scriptures are able to make thee wise to salvation. See Prov. xxviii. 26. Luke xii. 42.

FOLLY.

XIV. A fool's vain pretences to wisdom; he is wise in his own conceit. Job xi. 12. Vain man would be wise.

xii. 2. Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

xv. 8. Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? Prov. xxiii. 4. Cease from thine own