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So has God any other sons in the womb of his eternal decree, to be saviors to us, besides Christ? (Job 28:13) Where shall wisdom be found? The deep says it is not in me, and the sea says it is not with me.

Without wisdom a person is like a ship without a pilot, in danger to split upon rocks. Job sets forth the encomium and praise of wisdom (Job 28:13, 18). The price of wisdom is above rubies.

12. We shall in the kingdom of Heaven be freed from vanity and dissatisfaction. What Solomon says of wisdom, (Job 28:14) The depth says, it is not in me: and the sea says, it is not with me: the same may I say concerning satisfaction, every creature says, It is not in me. Take t…

We may see God's glory blazing in the sun, twinkling in the stars. Who could give the earth its clothing, cover it with grass and corn, adorn it with flowers, enrich it with gold, only God (Job 28:4)? Who but God could make the sweet music in the heavens, cause the angels to joi…

9. If sin be so great an evil, then what wisdom is it to depart from evil? (Job 28:28) To depart from evil is understanding. To sin is to do foolishly: therefore to depart from sin is to do wisely.

2. Let not it be a bare speculation, but improve it. 1. To quicken you to prayer, where should we go for wisdom when we need it, but to the wise God? see Job 28:12, James 1:5, Job 32:9. Solomon asked wisdom and had it.

Answ. In Scripture use, as sin is oft called folly, so religion or the fear of God is called wisdom. Job 28:28. The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil, that is understanding. Wisdom and goodness in Scripture language are but two expressions signifying the…

A strong wind that rent the mountains and tore in pieces the rocks, overturned the mountains by the roots. Job 28:9, this it is that breaks the cedars. Sabelicos reports that upon a time, Cambyse's Soldiers being at dinner in a sandy place, there rises up a whirlwind and drives…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

Verse 15: She is more precious than rubies. (2) (Job 28:1): Wisdom cannot be gotten for gold. (3) Is there not some worth in gold?

O death, come to your life, that is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3). Here a breathing living stone, and then a chosen one, of great price; should all the crowned kings, since Adam to the dissolving of this world sell themselves, their globe of the earth, and all their…

'Pure Religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, IS THIS, to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the World.' We have the like emphatical Expressions used about the same Thing in the old Testament; Job 28:28. 'And unto M…

Effects of the Wisdom of God, and those which have the impress of the Wisdom of God upon them; and when the Dispensation of them was said to be foolishness, the Apostle contends not about it, but tells them how-ever it is the foolishness of God, 1 Cor. 1. 15. which he does to ca…

(5.) The corruption of the heart shews it self, in raising up great expectations to our selves from the Creature, and projecting abundance of felicity and contentment from some promising and hopeful enjoyments we have in the world. This we find to have been the case of holy Job…

To draw near to God, is our wisdom. The price of wisdom is above rubies (Job 28:18). No jewel we wear does so adorn us as wisdom; and wherein is our wisdom seen more than in our drawing near to God?

That God offers this wisdom to all that live under the Gospel, and invites them to seek to him for it. Herein God shows his good will to such, in that he has told them wherein the true wisdom consists (Job 28:28): to man he says, the fear of God, that is wisdom, and to depart fr…

1. Infinite wisdom is one of the most glorious properties of the Divine Nature: it is that which is directive of all the external works of God, wherein the glory of all the other excellencies of God is manifested; therefore the manifestation of the whole glory of God proceeds or…

Enquire of those that have made trial of it, consult the experiences of others: call now, if there be any that will answer you, and to which of the saints will you turn (Job 5:1)? Ask your father and he will show you, your elders and they will tell you (Deuteronomy 32:7), that t…

And 'tis the peculiar work of the Spirit of God as he himself speaks of the dew to Job (Job 38:28): has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of the dew. The sharpest wits are to seek in the knowledge and discovery of it, as Job speaks of a way that no fowl knows, and…

Wisdom is more precious than Rubies, Proverbs 3:15. No Jewel we wear, does so adorn us as wisdom; now the fear of God is our wisdom: Job 28:28. And to man he said, the fear of the Lord that is wisdom.

Folly is the common name of sin, and so is fools of sinners in the Scripture (Psalm 94:8). O you fools, when will you be wise, that is, O you sinners when will you fear God, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, yes it is wisdom (Job 28:28), yes the top of wisdom…

Time is to be redeemed (Ephesians 5:16), and every day to be numbered, greatly valued and improved, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom (Psalms 90:12). And this is wisdom, the fear of the Lord, and this understanding, to depart from evil (Job 28:28). This is wisdom, to know a…

And ponder well what a vast price the dying and the damned set on their time. We may say of it as Job of another thing, in (Job 28:22), Destruction and death say, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears. Even so, destruction and death set an high rate upon it.

Let us come forth more admiring of, more affected with such things as are better than gold. The fear of God is one of those things, whereof it is said in Job 28:16, it cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir. Let it be then our prime and chief study, to be daily acting of it; ye…

Let it quicken your spiritual watch, let it maintain in you a holy awe and reverence of God, and help you to look the more carefully to your ways, lest you should sin, and make you more forward and constant in working out your own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2…

It is nowhere said in Scripture, happy is the man that finds silver, and the man that gets fine gold; these are of no weight in the balance of the Sanctuary, but it is said, Happy is the man that finds wisdom; and the man that gets understanding; for the merchandise of it is bet…

That the soul is very precious. What Job says of wisdom I may fitly apply to the soul: man does not know the price of it; it cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx or the sapphire; the gold and crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall not be…

Infinite wisdom is one of the most glorious properties of the divine nature: it is that which is directive of all the external works of God, wherein the glory of all the other excellencies of God is manifested; therefore the manifestation of the whole glory of God proceeds origi…

This is the best knowledge, it does as far surpass all other, as the Diamond does the Crystal; no Jewel we wear does so adorn us as this, Proverbs 3. 15. She is more precious than Rubies. Job 28. 12, 13. Man knows not the price thereof, the depth says it is not in me, it cannot…

Godliness is our wisdom. Job 28:28. The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. Policy without Piety, is profound madness:

Surely it seems happiness must be dug out of the bowels of the earth, it grows below, not above. The earth can no longer say, when it is demanded of our happiness, as it is in Job, it is not in me (Job 28:14); if silver and gold be our happiness, then it is in the earth, and so,…

Hopeful: I do believe, as you say, that fear tends much to men’s good, and to make them right at their beginning to go on pilgrimage. Christian: Without all doubt it does, if it be right; for so says the word, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Job 28:28; Psalm…

A constant steady sense of the evil of sin gives him such preservation, that he ventures liberty and life in opposition to it. To fear sin, is to fear the Lord; so the holy man tells us that they are the same (Job 28:28): The fear of the Lord that is wisdom, and to depart from i…

Gold is precious, but one drachm of saving grace is more precious than all the gold of Ophir. 'It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price of it' (Job 28:15). Truly gold and silver, sapphires, diamonds and rubies are not worth the mentioning, when…

The Wisdom of being Religious. JOB. 28. 28. And to man he said, Behold the fear of the Lord that is Wisdom, and to depart from evil that is understanding. In the beginning of this Chapter Job discourseth of the knowledge of Nature, and the secret and unaccountable operations of…

Was Adam endued with power and ability to keep it? Yes. (Genesis 1:26-27; Genesis 2:17; Romans 2:14-15; Romans 5:12, 19; Galatians 3:10, 12; Ecclesiastes 7:29; Job 28:28) Well then, do not the Socinians err, who maintain, that God made no covenant with Adam in his integrity, in…