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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50049	Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ...	Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1657 (1657)	Wing L985; ESTC R12549	255,543	192

you will have your tongue agree with your hearts and your hearts with that which is good go to God Vers. 2. All the waies of a man are clean in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirits 1. He speaks of man indefinitely of man as man therefore of every man 2. Not only some but all his waies seem right in his own eyes 3. The ground of this mistake men ponder not their waies The Lord weigheth the spirits Such as a mans spirit is such is the man See Prov. 10. 20. Vers. 6. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged Salomons meaning is that by Gods goodness and not ours iniquity is pardoned 2. If by mercy be meant mans mercy then we are to understand it thus that mercy and truth are evident signes unto us that our sins are forgiven and not the working causes of remission as the Papists say Vers. 23. And addeth learning to his lips That is so speaketh as that others are made wise thereby Vers. 27. An ungodly man diggeth up evil There is no evil above ground therefore he useth all enquiry Vers. 31. The hoary head is a Crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness That is when an old man is found to be a just and righteous man then he truly deserves reverence CHAP. XVII Verse 3. THe fining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold but the Lord trieth the hearts Goldsmiths have their vessels wherein they prove and try the gold and silver from dross and corruption but the Lord alone searcheth the hearts and knoweth them and none but he by grace can purifie them Vers. 5. Who so mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker That is contemneth the wi●e dispensation of God who would have the poor inter mingled with the rich See Prov. 14. 31. Vers. 8. A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it A stone in his eye or a stone glittering before his eye Much regarded by him on whom it is bestowed Vers. 9. But he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends By rubbing up the memory of it when it is gone and past doth separate a Prince that is maketh even the greatest friends to fall out Vers. 12. Let a Bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly Cross a man in a way of sinning when lust is up and bears sway in him and he is as outragious as a Bear and She bear and robbed of her whelps 2 Sam. 7. 8. Hos. 3. 8. Bears were well known in that Country 2 King 2. 24. 1 Sam. 17. 34. Vers. 16. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom seeing he hath no heart to it He knows not that he hath it or what it is worth We use to discover fools by telling of money Some expound it of every talent wealth honour authority opportunity one shews himself a wise man by valuing aright the price he hath in his hands and by his will to it Vers. 17. A friend loveth at all times That is as a friend loveth or ought to love And a brother is born for adversity A brother whether natural civil or spiritual Vers. 21. And the father of a fool hath no joy The meaning is he hath much sorrow yea the deniall of all joy affirms more then the feeling of much sorrow for it speaks all sorrow See ch 10. 1. Vers. 22. A merry heart doth good like a medicine That never does good but to a sore so that under the cross See 18. 14. But a broken spirit drieth the bones Because it eateth up the spirits which should nourish and moisten them See ch 13 13. Vers. 25 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bare him Not only because disappointed in their expectation received not that comfort from him they looked for but it revives their own guilt in want of care of their education Vers. 27. And a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit Or a cool spirit so the word signifies Vers. 28. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise So excellent a thing it is to keep silence in time and place that even a silly person holding his tongue is taken for a discreet man He doth not say he is wise but he is counted so because he doth not discover his want of wisdom CHAP. XVIII Verse 4. THe words of a mans mouth are as deep waters That is of an excellent mans as the word imports A wise prudent man speaks oracles Vers. 8. The words of the tale-bearer are as wounds At once wounding both him of whom he speaketh and him to whom he speaketh And they go down into the innermost parts of the belly They give a deadly stroke Vers. 10. The Name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth into it and is safe That is God in Christ made known to us 2 Cor. 46. Luke 1. 69. Heb. 2. 10. A tower is a place of safety Name Sometimes God himself usually his attributes by which he hath discovered himself in Scripture Strong Able to defend shelter and preserve The righteous runneth to it Those which are justified and sanctified in Christ. And is safe Exalted Heb. so safe that being exalted above the fear of evil he overlooketh danger with a neglect of it Vers. 13. He that answereth a matter before he hath heard it That is before he hath heard it out with diligent attention so as rightly to understand it Vers. 14. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmities but a wounded spirit who can bear The spirit of a man Of every man for so both Grammar and Logick beareth here Will sustain With patience strength comfort constancy His infirmities His present burden which ever seems sorest whatever it be Some interpret it thus the conscience being whole unwounded will bear him up against the troubles of his body But a wounded spirit who can bear A spirit which God hath struck viz. with his displeasure terrour The word signifies a smitten contrite or broken spirit a metaphor from bodily afflictions by stripe● contusions bruises or wounds every light touch hurteth the troubled part Who can bear it That is none can if the question be affirmative the answer is negative Vers 21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue In manu linguae Heb. in the hand of the tongue Vers. 22. Who so findeth a wife that is a good wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favour of the Lord. Vers. 23. The poor useth intreaties Speaks humbly earnestly out of a deep sense of his own necessity Vers. 24. There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother That is the Christian friend he sticks closer than the meer naturall brother CHAP. XIX Verse 2. ALso that the soul be without knowledge it is not good Some reade the words Without knowledge the minde is not