...Thusbqbits of idleness grow : the less a man dot//, the tess he is 16 disposed to do. The sluggard [Is] wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason ; as stupid a creature as he is, he has a great conceit of Ms own abilities, though he has 17 nothing...

...with an over-weening opinion of themselves, and the unworthiest most; A sluggard, (says Solomon) is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason' ; and not finding others of their mind, this frets and troubles them. They take the ready course to...

...a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him. Ver. 1 6. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason. xxxviii. 11. The rich man is wise in his own conceit. Ver. 26. He that trusteth in his own heart is...

...in) There is Л lion without (saith he) I shall be slain in the street : who althowgb herein he be wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason : Yet (the truth is) he, thut (so much as) fellows the Ше, is destitute of tmderstemdmff ; he lusteih...

...for a drunken man to handle a thorn bush: this wounds him; that shames him. XXVI. 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. The sluggard will not be beaten out of his sloth; and, let never so many wise men persuade him to shake...

...hitleth lun hand in his bosom ; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. 1 6 The sluggard is an EphrathiX,J 17 He that passeth by,' and meddlelh with strife belonging not to him, in like one that taketh a d"g...

...his knowledge from afar, namely, from the Father of lights; and thence it is that, " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason," Prov. xxvi. 16. That strange sleepy frame that you complain of, and which often comes upon God's people...

...knowledge. Though at the same time, they are conceited enough, Prov. xxvi. 16'. " The slothful man is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason." And the worst of all is, it leads to vice. (! The devil finds some mischief still, for idle hands to...

...almost every thing ; scarcely ever intimates that there is a probability that he can be mistaken; ' is wiser, in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' True piety is uniformly modest and unassuming. When ' Ephraim spake tremblingly, he exalted himself...

...Yet it is needful in some cases, to * answer a fool according to his folly,' otherwise he will be * wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.' I therefore constrained myself to approach as near as I dared, to his own manner of writing. And I...