Proverbs 8

And he is, the text says, 〈in non-Latin alphabet〉, King of Kings. He has a preeminence of all other Kings, he is called the Prince of the Kings of the Earth (Revelation 1:5), 〈in non-Latin alphabet〉 — He must needs be so, for by him Kings reign (Proverbs 8:15). They hold their c…

God is the supreme monarch, all power is seated originally in him; and the powers that be are of God (Romans 13:1). Kings hold their crowns from him (Proverbs 8:15). By me kings reign.

Grace may suffer an eclipse, not a dissolution. It is called substance for its solidity (Proverbs 8:21), and durable riches for its permanency (Proverbs 8:18). It lasts as long as the soul, as heaven lasts.

Response. God is the Father of Christ in a more glorious transcendent manner. Christ has the primogeniture; he is the eldest Son, a Son by eternal generation: Proverbs 8:23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

He is not more wise, more holy, more powerful than the other persons are; a priority, not superiority. 2. The second person in the Trinity is Jesus Christ, who is begotten of the Father before all time (Proverbs 8:23-25). I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or eve…

To have the precious soul endangered is far worse than to have the body endangered. Sin wrongs the soul (Proverbs 8:36). Sin casts this jewel of the soul overboard.

Psalm 102:15, 16, 17, "Of old you have laid the foundation of the Earth and the Heavens are the work of your hands; they shall perish but you shall endure, yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed, but you are t…

Q. How is he King over all creatures? A. In sustaining and disposing of them all by his providence, as may be for his glory, and the good of the elect (Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Proverbs 8:15-16; Isaiah 43:14-15). Q. And how is he King of the visible Church?

Q. Had this world a beginning by creation, or was it from everlasting? A. The scripture in many places, and especially in the first of Genesis does declare that the world was not from everlasting, but had a beginning by the Lord's creating of it (Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11; P…

And then take up words of pleading for yourself — it is for your life. Desire him to remember what he has been thinking of from everlasting — thoughts of peace and mercy toward us, whose number cannot be told (Psalm 40:5), which he has been thinking of with the greatest of delig…

1. The words are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, considered as to be incarnate, for the redemption of the Church. As such, he was always in the bosom of the Father, participant of his counsels; especially of those which concerned the Church, the children of me…

2. This faith carries out the soul to God, and that in these three respects: (1.) as looking to him for all it wants; (2.) in acknowledging him, in all it has; (3.) in uniting the heart to God in love. 1. In looking to him for all it wants: faith leads the soul to wisdom's gates…

For they say he was continually occupied in making many little worlds, which he continually destroyed as he made them, because none pleased him till he made this. But we must rather say, that some things are revealed which God did then, as that he decreed what should come to pas…

God surpasses the praises of the archangels; he is encircled with glory and majesty (Psalm 104:1). He does infinitely outvie all the powers of the earth: princes hold their crowns by immediate tenure from him (Proverbs 8:15); his dominions are largest, his possession longest. Th…

If he tarries longer than we expect, he is not stuck (2 Peter 3:9). But we are hasty; he wants no affection to us — his delights were with the sons of men before they were created (Proverbs 8:31). And certainly now he is so deeply interested in us, as having bought us with his b…

Psalm 36:3. He has left off to be wise and to do good, where the last words expound the former. More particularly wisdom in this place is that which the generality of the Jews rejected, and that was Christ (who is called Wisdom, Proverbs 8, and who is made to us of God wisdom, a…

Were our hearts [illegible] they ought to be when we read the Word, we would tremble at that more than at any manifestation of God since the world began in all his Works; and if so be you do not see more glory of God in his Word than in his Works, it is because you have little l…

Whatever we do which evil does necessarily follow it, is accounted by God, as we brought the evil on purpose upon our selves. Surely they set not up silver and gold on intention to destroy themselves, but because destruction does necessarily follow, therefore God accounts it don…

2. God is still pleased to continue our race on earth; a succession of men in this world, from age to age, made after his own image, with minds and spirits that are intelligent and immortal, which declares a strong inclination in God towards such a sort of creatures; the inhabit…

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…

We must be prepared in our hearts, by a great reverence of the most heavenly, most constant and profitable wisdom of the Lord for us, contained therein (Psalm 119:129). By a sure hope to find understanding in the plain light of the Lord (Psalm 119:130; Proverbs 8:9). By an earne…

1. In his undertaking of the bargain, his willingness appears; when burnt offerings and sacrifices would not do it, and when there was no obligation on him to do what he did, then comes in his free offer and consent, and that with delight (Psalm 40): Then said I, Lo, I come: in…

He comes in and says (as we have it, (Psalm 40)) Lo, I come, in the volume of your book it is written of me, I delight to do your will, O my God; I am here, Father, as if he had said, I offer myself and accept of the terms heartily and delightfully; I rejoiced, says he, (Proverb…

For the next thing, namely, the clearing and confirming of it; it might be cleared and confirmed from many grounds, but we shall only touch on some, that may make it out most convincingly, that it is most delightsome to Jesus Christ, to see sinners making use of Him, and getting…

Hence, Observe, That our blessed Lord Jesus was most hearty in laying down His life for sinners, was most cheerful in undertaking, and most willing and cheerful in executing what He did undertake; He makes not two words of the bargain, (to speak so) but when sacrifice and offeri…

The Lord answers that calumny (Ezekiel 18): And here, as I live, I delight not so (so as you slanderously, and blasphemously say) in the death of a sinner, by my life, I desire you may repent and live, nor have I pleasure to punish innocent men, for no sin at all. And the second…

Doctrine: According to, or upon our having, or not having of Christ, depends our having or not having of life. The note is of special weight in our Christian experience, and therefore let us take so much the more care in opening of it; He that finds me (which is all one with, he…

And besides, endeavor to find him in the means (verse 3): Hear, and your souls shall live; listen diligently to the Word of God. It is a notable promise that in Proverbs 8:34: Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at the posts of my gates, for he that finds me, finds…

And for you that do not believe savingly, whose faith will not put you in possession of eternal life, though this Scripture was not so much written for your use and benefit, as for them that already believe, yet since there is no means to come to faith but by the Word, be not yo…

Christ is the Son of God properly so called, a Son only begotten (John 3:16), God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son. Eternally begotten (Proverbs 8:22-23), I was set up from everlasting, the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of ol…

Bless the Lord ye his Angels, that excel in strength, that do his Commandements, hearkning to the voice of his Word. 2. The matter which he speaks, and we hear, is the doctrine of the Gospel, it is the most sweet, excellent, and comfortable doctrine that can be heard or understo…

The contrary Affection of Hatred also, as having Sin for its Object, is spoken of in Scripture, as no inconsiderable Part of true Religion. It is spoken of as that by which true Religion may be known and distinguished, Proverbs 8. 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate Evil.

'Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have Respect to all thy Commandments.' Proverbs 8:13. 'The Fear of the Lord is to hate Evil.

And the Lord God formed Man of the Dust of the Ground, and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life, and Man became a Living Soul. (1.) There is the Matter whereof he was formed; (2.) The Quickning Principle added thereunto; And (3.) the Effect of their Conjunction and Unio…

Again, he delights in you — I speak to such of whom this may be supposed. And it is indefinitely said his delights were with the sons of men (Proverbs 8). Think what he is, and what you are; and at once, both wonder and yield.

How much Christ appears as the Lamb of God, in his invitations to you to come to him and trust in him. With what sweet grace and kindness does he from time to time call and invite you: 'Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men' (Proverbs 8:4). And Isaiah 55:1-…

1. That the whole mystery of his will antecedently to the revelation of it, is said to be hid in God, that is, the Father (Ephesians 3:9); it lay wrapped up from the eyes of men and Angels, in his eternal wisdom and counsel (Colossians 1:26, 27). The Son indeed, who is, and from…

So (Psalms 29:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) those things are ascribed [in non-Latin alphabet] to this voice of the Lord, which elsewhere are assigned [in non-Latin alphabet] (Hebrews 1:3) to the word of his Power, which the Syriac renders by the Power of his Word, intending the same thin…

Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Leviticus 10:16 the middle word; Leviticus 13:33 the middle verse; th…

For although [in non-Latin alphabet], be frequently used for [in non-Latin alphabet] from before the face or sight, as the words of the Targumist are here vulgarly translated, (as in the Translation in the Polyglott Bibles) a facie admirabilis Consilii Deus, which is blamed by C…

Now when he is about to speak parables, he says, I will open my mouth. When wisdom calls for audience and obedience (Proverbs 8:6), she says, Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things. David invokes God to open his mouth, when h…

That is, between God the father, who sends him, and himself; There lay the counsel of peace making between God and Man in due time accomplished by him who is our peace, Ephesians 2:16. So he speaks, Proverbs 8:30, 31. Then I was by him as one brought up with him, and I was daily…

Now the fruit of this single eye is, to make the whole bodie light; that is, to bring the whole life into good order, guiding it in the paths of righteousnes, and making [illegible] abound in good works. Prov. 8. 19, 20. My fruit (saith wisdom) is []ter then fine gold—I cause to…

And so the second end, subordinate to the former, is in the end of verse 10. in these words, for the daughters of Jerusalem, that is, for their good that are weak and far short of perfection; it's not only fitted for his glory, but also, it's fitted and confirmed to them, so as…

If taken passively, he is gone down to feed, that is, that himself may eat, and it is the same with what was, (Song of Solomon 5:1) I have come to my garden, I have eaten, etc. and the scope in both, looks to be the same. So the meaning of the similitude is, that as men have the…

But there is also another rank of fathers, and they are political; Patres Patriae, the fathers of their country, to whom we owe honor and reverence by the obligation of this command. And these are the magistrates and governors that God has set over us: They are his deputies and…

2. Consider the state into which you are counseled, for this end observe, 1. Who is your counselor, Jesus Christ, who indeed is the only counselor, the wisdom of the Father, who best understands the law of heaven, and what will stand you in stead, in the court of God; he that mi…

But what was borrowed, or the naked ground. O melting consideration! that the glorious Son of God, Ioh, 1. 14. The Lord of glory, Iam. 2. I. The brightness of his fathers glory. Heb. 1. 3. Who was rich, 2 Cor. 8. 9. And it no robbery to be equal with God. Phil. 2. 8. who from al…

1. Means used are the Lord's way of coming to us, and our way of coming to him, whether in the word preached (Acts 2:36, 37; Acts 4:4; Acts 10:44; Acts 16:14; John 4:9, 10, 14–29, 30, 39, 40, 41; John 4:50, 51), or in miracles or any other lawful way. 2. Because to some certain…

And then fourth, the righteous Lord loves righteousness, yet the Lord absolutely and simply willed rather the holy, free submissive obedience of the second Adam to be, than he wills the final obedience of the first Adam; and he wills more the manifestation of the glory of his fr…