...rescued from admiring ourselves, and that overweening self-conceit. edness, of which the Wise Man saith, The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God service ; to gratify his desires, to...

...there is nothing farther that they can learn. '* The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: and even a sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." Let me, therefore, earnestly entreat all who peruse these pages, seriously to examine the foundation...

...itself, or from those who are under it. Fools are not sensible of their folly. Solomon says, " The fool is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason."* The most barbarous and brutish heathens are not sensible of their own darkness ; are not sensible but...

...taught to hear and read only on one side. It is the confidence of the sluggard mentioned by Soloman, ' wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' Besides, we hold that all true liberality is founded in a proper distrust of our own judgment ; in...

...rescued from admiring ourselves, and that over-weening self-conceitedness, of which the wise man saith, ' The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.' It is a calling, whereby we are qualified and enabled to do God service ; to gratify his desires, to...

...and candid examination, and with a clear conception of the grounds on which they are formed : — " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." The process of mind which we call reason or judgment, therefore, seems to be essentially the same,...

...description, we will speak, I. In a way of humiliating reproof — Justly does Solomon observe, that " a sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason b." The more careless men are about their souls, the more confident they are of their future safety....

...an over-weening opinion of themselves, and the unworthiest the most so ; The Sluggard, says Solomon, is wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason, Prov. xxvi. 16 : and not finding others of their mind, this frets and troubles them. They take the...

...examination, and with a clear conception of the grounds on which they are formed ; — " the slut/yard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." Very different opinions prevail on the immediate consequences of death to the soul : whether it passes...

...evidence ; and what their conscience approves, they are not afraid to venture, because they are sincere. " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason." Prov. 26: 16. "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit 1 There is more hope of a fool than of him....