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Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth

These illustrations of the Proverbs are not critical, continuous, exhaustive. The comments, in imitation of the text, are intended to be brief, practical, miscellaneous, isolated. The reader may, however, perceive a principle of unity running through the whole, if he takes his stand at the outset on the writer's view point — a desire to lay the Christian System along the surface of common life, without removing it from its foundations in the doctrines of Grace. The authority of the instructions must be divine; the form transparently human. - Summary by the Author (26 hr 39 min)

Chapters

To the Reader

4:37

The Preacher

13:09

The Book—Proverbs

7:14

The Root of Knowledge

12:00

The Family

10:18

Filial Love a Blossom of Beauty

7:11

The Foe and the Fight Part 1

23:38

The Foe and the Fight Part 2

26:25

Filthy Lucre

13:37

The Cry of Wisdom

17:29

A Revival

13:09

Sowing Disobedience, Reaping Judgment

21:34

Seek and Ye Shall Find

18:58

Perils in the Deep

14:45

Wisdom Received and Retained

11:53

The Art of Printing

12:48

Trust

10:47

The Health of Holiness

3:56

Capital and Profit

5:12

A Fatherly Word on Fatherly Correction

14:13

Making a Fortune

9:25

A Lengthened Day, and a Pleasant Path

8:34

Wisdom Making and Managing Worlds

5:47

Confidence in God the True Safeguard from Temptation

10:35

The Right Thing Done at the Right Time

11:30

The Curse and the Blessing Upon the House

4:16

Precept and Example

4:10

Hold Fast

4:57

The Path of the Just

9:10

The Fountain and Its Streams

17:33

Family Joys

12:36

The Method of Providence for Restraining Evil

5:17

Seven Hateful Things

4:09

Mother’s Law

14:05

The Worth of Wisdom and the Fear of the Lord

9:17

Rane and Riches

5:27

The Redeemer Anticipating Redemption

7:53

The Marriage Supper for the King’s Son

6:29

Reproof

13:32

The Pleasures of Sin

13:32

The Place and Power of a Son

7:58

Diligent in Business

2:28

Posthumous Fame

3:45

The Wise are Teachable, the Upright Strong

5:45

The Well of Life, and the Treasures of Wisdom

7:42

The Money Power

13:32

The Lips and Tongue

7:04

The Blessing of the Lord Maketh Rich

9:27

A Fool’s Sport

7:26

Fears Realized and Hopes Fulfilled

12:21

The Greatness Oe Little Things

9:06

Honesty is the Best Policy

12:15

Assorted Pairs

8:27

Hypocrites and Tale — Bearers

6:27

Debts and Sureties

17:43

As We Sow, We Reap

8:05

A Jewel Ill Set

6:55

The Desire of the Righteous

4:10

Scattering to Keep, and Keeping to Scatter

7:46

The Waterer is Watered

7:41

Raising the Market—The Practice and the Penalty

6:47

The Tree and Its Branch

10:27

The Wisdom of Winning Souls

5:54

A Bitter but Healthful Morsel

6:51

A Husband’s Crown

5:52

The Wicked are Cruel—The Liars are Caught

7:38

Hope Deferred

5:26

God’s Word the Preserver of Nations

4:23

The Hard Way

6:12

The Choice of Companions

6:40

The Father Who Hates His Son

14:51

Secularism

10:53

Wisdom Modest, and Folly Rash

9:58

Sympathy

5:30

A Man is Responsible for His Belief

10:09

The Backslider

6:41

The Trustful and the Truthful

7:30

Witnesses

9:54

The Place of Refuge

9:12

Envy—The Disease and the Cure

7:02

The Merciful

12:57

The Two Departures—The Hopeful and the Hopeless

14:04

The Truth in Love

13:08

The All-Seeing

26:36

A Wholesome Tongue

14:18

Mirth a Medicine

13:02

Tastes Differ

15:35

Humility Before Honour

12:16

The Maker and the Breaker of a Family’s Peace

12:08

The False Balance Detected by the True

16:13

Mercy and Truth

11:05

Providence

33:23

Wisdom and Wealth—Their Comparative Worth

7:54

The Highway of the Upright

13:18

The Well — Spring of Life

11:31

The Cruelty of Fools

24:02

Friendship

23:58

The Bias on the Side of Self

9:32

A Wife

22:41

Anger

10:31

A Poor Man is Better Than a Liar

8:39

The Deceitfulness of Strong Drink

24:51

The Sluggard Shall Come to Want

12:03

Wisdom Modest, Folly Obtrusive

9:39

Two Witnesses—The Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye

20:19

Buyers and Sellers

16:22

A Good Name

9:07

The Rich and the Poor Meet Together

9:19

Riding — Places for the Prudent

9:09

Education

37:36

The Bondage of the Borrower

23:10

Convenient Food

14:23

The Rights of Man

24:18

A Faithful Father

24:23

The Prosperity of the Wicked

11:05

A Brother’s Keeper

16:48

Piety and Patriotism

13:43

The Sluggard’s Garden

9:43

Monarchs, Under God and over Men

14:08

A Faithful Messenger

13:20

The Fire That Melts an Enemy

14:56

A Time to Frown and a Time to Smile

10:35

Cold Waters to the Thirsty Soul

8:29

An Impure Appetite Seeks Impure Food

9:03

Now, or To-Morrow

16:44

The Countenance of a Friend

12:44

Conscience

9:23

Sin Covered and Sin Confessed

25:25

The Fear of Man Bringeth a Snare

24:30

Philosophy and Faith

22:13

Lemuel and His Mother

8:20

A Heroine

20:08

Faith and Obedience—Work and Rest

11:15