...moment to your own comfort, both in life and death. Solomon often repeats the substance of that remark ; A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is a heaviness to his mother*. And the justice of it in both its branches is very apparent. Let me engage...

...all the judges of the earth. I love M«TW that love me ; and those that seek me early shall Jind me. A wise son maketh a glad father : but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereih from death. The /,(??•(/ will...

...the Lord. THE ANSWER OF THE LORD. " Now, Joanna, I shall answer -thec, from the words of Solomon : a wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is heaviness to his mother. And now I shall tell thee from (lie WISDOM of SOLOMOX_, who is the WISH SON,...

...mother. Ver. 21. Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Ver. 22. ». 7. A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. xiii. 1. A wise son heareth his father's instructions, but a scomer heareth not rebuke. xv. 2D. A wise...

...obsenations of moral virtues and their contrary vices. 1 THE '"FHE proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makcth a glad father : but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing : but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The Lono will...

...scriptures wise and pious are used as synonymous expressions, because piety is the only true wisdom :) *' A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." (Prov. x. 1.) And elsewhere, " A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bare...

...While those who hate their bibles, and love wickedness, are a grief of heart to all their relations. " A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the reproach of his mother." Even strangers whenever they discover seriousness, and religion, in young...

...sermon, in which the following passage occurs : — " Solomon says in Prov. chap. 10, ver. 1, ' that a wise son maketh a glad father : ' but a foolish son is heaviness to his mother.' How true is this, both in the natural and spiritual senses ! " and the writer...

...with thee, and thou mayestJive long on the earth. ) Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father. A wise son maketh a glad father ; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. My son. keep thy lather's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. My son, hear the instruction...

...ihe dead are there ; and that her guests are in ihe depths of hell. CHAP. X. IHE proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing : but righteousness delivereth from death. 3 The LORD will...