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... Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor - Page 3101841Full view - About this book
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...receive my words, and hide my com-LVJL mnndmcnts with thee, that is,be carrful to remember them ¡ 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding ; command thy roving thoughts, check thy f'jolith fiassions, hear -with diligent attention and sincere... | |
| Christian life - 1806 - 416 pages
...the true riches." Such is the manifest intention of the inspired preacher of Israel, when he says, " My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my...unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; if thou leekest her as silver r and searchest for her as for hid treasure ; then shall thou understand... | |
| Edward Evans (schoolmaster.) - 1806 - 588 pages
...that thou may est be clothed; and not found naked: seek wisdom which is more precious than rubies , yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding, if ihou seekest her as silver and searchestfor her asforhidden treasures;thcn shaltthou understand the... | |
| James Dana - Sermons, American - 1806 - 518 pages
...Thofe thatfeek me early SHALL fad me. If any fhall find, early feekers are of this number. " My fon, if thou wilt " receive my words, and hide my commandments " with thee ; fo that thou incline thine ear unto wif" dom, and apply thine heart to underftanding ; yea, " if... | |
| Robert Leighton - Theology - 1806 - 472 pages
...ornament of grace unto thine head, and chains about thy neck":" and of religion, under the name of wisdom, "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hidden treasure'." Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For... | |
| David Tappan - Sermons - 1807 - 406 pages
...and upbraideth not ; and it shall be given him. Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftestup thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hidden treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God."... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...direction in good ways. "\./rY son, if tliou 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 iiftest up thy voice for understanding ; 4 If thou setkest... | |
| Congregational churches - 1808 - 604 pages
...thou will raceive my words, and hide iny commandments with thee ; BO that thou incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; yea,...silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; t/ien shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God." Prov. ii. 1 —... | |
| Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 584 pages
...well as themselves ; nor can the subject be better closed than with the following important passage, " My son, if thou wilt receive my " words, and hide...that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, " and apply thy heart to understanding ; yea if " thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy ft voice for... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 624 pages
...within thee; so that thou incline thine " ear to wisdom, and apply thine heart to under" standing: yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and " liftest up thy voice for understanding : if thou seek" est her as silver, and searchest for her as hid trea" sures : then shalt thou understand the... | |
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