Chap. <6. An Expoltien uDfn the Book_ef J O 13. Verf 3, 723 Ver.. 3. How haft thou counfelled hint that bath no wildome ? To give counfel is the worke of the wife,and they who are un- wife have molt need of counfel, though they feldornethinke fo. And it may be a very difputablequeftion, who is the wirer man, he that gives good counfel, or he that readily receives it &makes good ufe ofit. Good counfel dirells how to judge ofthings,how to fpeake, and how toa&In the multitude of('olenfell,r$ there is fafety (faith Solomon) and they mutt needs be unfafe, who either have none togive them counfel,or refole wholefome counfel wh.c 'tis given. Counfel is to a man without wifdome as bread is to a man that is hungry, or as cloaths to aman that is naked.Mater Broughton tranflates ; what doer thou counfel mitAnat r ifdcme ? Right counfel is the very fpirits ofwifdome ; but thy counfel is flat and hash no (pirits in it.Thus his tranflation referrs the want of wifdorn to the counfel which Bildadgave 7eb;but ours referrs it to Sob to whom Bildad undertook to give counfel. How haft thou counfelled him that hathao wi;dome ? As if he had laid. Thou O B,ldad lot lied upon me, as a man without wildom,lf I am fo, I do not perceive that thy counfel is like to make me much wifer. Thy countel will even leave me where it found me, and 'tis well if it doe not put me backward. What Orange kind of counfel is thine ! How haft thou counfeled bim that bath no rrifdeme ?From all thofe cutting queltioels put together, Obierve, Fir&, They who are weake, andwithout wi/dome, psouldbe bol- pea, and tenderly dealt with, by grave and gracious counfel. The words of the wife conveigh ftrength to the weake, com fort to the forrowfull, and counlel to thofe who know not what to doe. See the tenderueffe of Chrift to the weake (Math: 12. 38, 19) Beholdmy fervant whom Ihave- ehofen, and my beloved in whom my route is me!! plea/ed, I will put my [pmt upon him, and befha/ithew jud,emtent to the Gentiles. He rneaneth not judge- ment, ae judvrrent is oppofed to mercy. Jefus Chriß did not come in that fenfe to (hew judgement to the Gentiles,he did not come to bring wrath upon them, but he camel() Phew mercy to the Z z z z z Gentiles,
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