or Paſſion, becauſe the danger is greater, all things conſidered, and * Rom:13 more unavoidable.
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his eyes it was expoſed, that he might diſcern the beauty and worth
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will not pity nor relieve him. 14 The beginning of ſtrife ;s as when one lettethout water g ; therefore * leave off contention before it be
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g By cutting the Bank of a River,in which caſe the Water quick- Jy widens the breach and breaks in with irreſiſtible violence and fury, and cauſerh great miſchief and deſtruftion, b Avoid the oc-
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; # Thar acquitteth him as innocent by a judicialSentence,or other- wiſe approverh or commendeth his evil prattices.By which we may ealily underſtind what it 1s to condemn the juſt. l
16 Wherefore k is there a price / in the hand of a fool to get wiſdom », ſeing he hath no heart to it »?
k The Queſtion implies that it is unworthily placed, and that it is to no purpoſe or benefit of the Poſſeffor: 1 Poſlefſions or riches as all the ancient Tranſlators render it, of which this word is uſed, Ja: 55.1. and elſewhere,under which all opportunities and abilities of getting it are comprehended, m For the obtaining whereof, rich Men have many and great advantages above others. » Neither com mon diſcretion to diſcern the worth of Wiſdom, and his advantage ro get it ; norany ſincere defireto get it ; for the heart 1s commone= Iy uſed in Scripture both for the underſtanding, and for che will and aff-Qions,
17 * A friend o loveth atall times p, and a brother
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. 0 A finczre and hearty Friend. p Not only in proſperity, but alſo1ia adverſity, when falſe Friends forſake us: q Who is ſo not only by name and Blood, but by brotherly affetion. r Was ſent into the World for this among other ends, that he might comfort and relieve his Brother in his adverſity. So this Proverb compar- eth a Friend with a brother, and ſheweth that a Friend doth that freely,and by a choice,which a brother doth by the force and obli- gations of Nature. But this laſt clauſe may be, and is by divers otherwiſe renqred, and he C to wir, the Friend is Berna Brother (or, becrmes, or 25 made a Brother, i: e: puts on brotherly affeCtion, as if he had received a ſecond Birth and was born his Brother, ſuch ex- prefſions being not unuſual borh in Scriprure,andin other Authors ) 11 or againſt the time of adverlity. So the ſenſe is, He is a Friend at al) times, butin adverliry he is more than an ordinary Friend,even a Brother. . : :
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& 11: 15. and becometh ſurety in the preſence of his friend x.
+ Heb. 5 In token of his becoming Surety : Ot which Phraſe, and of the
beg. thing ir ſelf: ſee on Prov: 6:1, & 11. 15. # The Friend here is ei-
ther 1, b-fore, and to the Creditor. Or rather 2. before,and with and for the debror, for whom, as being his Friend, he becomes Surety, as the manner of Friends is, See on Prov: 6: 3. And this Proverb is ficly placed after that v: 17. to intimate, that alchougd the laws of Friendſhip oblige us to love and help our friends in trou- ble, as far as we are able, yet they donot oblige us to become Sure- ty for them raſhly, and above what we are able to pay, for by that means we make our ſelves unable to do good either to them, or to others, or to our ſelves, .
19 He loveth tranſgreflion, that loveth ſtrife « ; and