...Lord is the beginning of knowledge : But fools defpife wifdom and inftuction. And unto man he faid, " The fear of the Lord, that is wifdom, and to depart from evil is underftanding." By the fear of the Lord, is evidently meant, true piety, or obedience to God, in keeping...

...beflows upon it, and that with this exprefs view. It is wifdom, it is under/landing. Thus in Job : Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wifdom, and to depart from evil, is under/landing. And in Proverbs : The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge ; or, as the Hebrew word will...

...fins (£)" — * whom God hath fet forth " to be a propitiation through faith in his " blood (c )." " The fear of the Lord, that " is wifdom, and to depart from evil is '" underftanding (d)." " He that will love " life and fee good days, let him refrain his (a) 2 Peter,...

...ejl, from all the creatures, The fea fays it is not in me, &c. But in the clofe finds he it in this, The fear of the Lord that is wifdom, and to depart from evil that is under/landing, Job xxviii. ult. Under this fear is comprehended all religion, both inward and...

...pfalms, and Paul's epiftles. Oh, firs,' faid he to thofe about him, ' mind the world lefs, and God more : The fear of the Lord, that is wifdom ; and to depart from evil, that is underftanding.' $. XXVII. Francis Junius, an ingenious perfon, who hath writ his own life,...

...pfalms and Paul's epiftles. Oh ! Sirs, faid he to thofe about him, mind the world lefs and God more: the fear of the Lord, that is wifdom, and to depart from evil, that is underH^e, (landing. Lord Chief Juflice Hale was pro1650 foundly (killed in mathematics, in...

...be denominated wifdom ? Are not your thoughts now ready to break forth in the language of Holy Writ. The fear of the Lord, that is wifdom : and to depart from evil is under/landing : It is the fool that maketb a mock at fin : the fool, 0 Lord, jhall not Jland in thy fight (e) ? Is...

...nature, and the best and surest guide of human life. It is thus defined in Job, xxviii, 18, " Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wifdom, and to depart from evil is understanding;" in Psalm cxi. 10, " The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding...

...declaration in our text mines to our eyes as an undeniable, a divine truth : God himfelf has faid to man, the fear of the Lord, that is wifdom, and to depart from evil is underftanding! Yes, it is certain, that a virtuous, godly, chriftian life is an eminently wife and...

...declaration in our text fhines to our eyes as an undeniable, a divine truth : God himfelf has faid to man, the fear of the Lord, that is wifdom, and to depart from evil is underftanding ! Yes, it is certain, that a virtuous, godly, chriftian life is an eminently wife and...