Proverbs 17:15 These words may serve to show us that our estimate of other men is a matter of very solemn responsibility in God's sight. I. I will first insist on the general duty of conscientiousness in forming all our estimates of other men. We Christians are not driving on with the world, tramp... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 17:20 Two bad things are reproved in these words: the first is a bad spirit, and the second is a bad habit; the first is the sullen, snarling spirit of discontent, which kills all hearty, genial gaiety; the second is the vicious habit of unbridled flippant talk, which goes far to destroy a... [ Continue Reading ]
Proverbs 17:22 I. Consider the power which the mind can exert in support of the body, so long as itself is in good case. If it be true that the spirit of man has a medicinal power, that there is a strength in his nature which endows him with such control over the body that he can give it up to the... [ Continue Reading ]