...: " Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few." But in the Scripture formulary of which I am speaking, the keenest sophists, and the fiercest adversary,...

...Solomon, " Be Mot rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a thing before God ; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few." These things being observed, let your importunity be as great as it can ; it is still the more likely...

...Ecclesiastes: " Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few." But in the Scripture formulary of which I am speaking, the keenest sophists, and the fiercest adversary,...

...— Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God ; for God is in heaven and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business ; and a fool's voice is known by a multitude of...

...Testament. " Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God ; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few."* By the fewness of words, we understand, that they should be well weighed, and well ordered, in opposition...

...corresponding. Be not rash wun thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before Cod: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth ; therefore let thy words be few. Steles. This is to be bold without shame, rash without skill, full of words without wit. Ascham. Who...

...advice : Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for God is in heaven and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few. (Eccl. v. 2.) This would keep us from our ordinary babblings, that heart nonsense, which, though the...

...words without knowledge, and neglect the wise caution contained in the advice given in Ecclesiastes : " God is in heaven and thou upon earth ; therefore let thy words be few." The departure from the scriptural words of soberness, and truth, in the various disputes of the reformed...

...this: 'Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words'...

...simple and sublime utterance (full of instruction, surely, on the whole theme I am dealing with) is, 'God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.' Eccles. v. 2. For another example under this class see how Habakkuk's sublime words are tortured, Thou...