 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 722 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 1830 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...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.... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Barrell Cheever - Episcopal Church in Scotland - 1832 - 584 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...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... | |
 | John Abercrombie - Human information processing - 1832 - 392 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Society of Friends - 1833 - 710 pages
...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.... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...they always have been, upon the popular feeling, they have no inward strength. Such an one is always wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. How infatuated are they, in thinking that Christ will promote them to high places in his esteem, or... | |
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The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. 
