...nothing at all. Hence is that complaint of holy Agur, while wrestling up this hill, Prov. xxx, 2, 3 : " Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not...understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy." belief made him to cry, " Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? hath he forgotten...

...emptiness of the principles which he and others have advanced, humbly and ingenuously confess with Agur, " Surely I am more brutish than any man, and " have...understanding of a man. I " neither learned wisdom, nor did I acquire the " knowledge of the Holy." LECTURE II. DIFFERENT MODES OF INSPIRATION. HEB. I. 1,...

...instruction, and subjects itself to him as a king, receiving the law from his mouth: 'O!' says the soul, ' "I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man ;" but this Saviour " has pity on the ignorant, and them that are out of the way :" he opens the book,...

...that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing ; Rom. vii. 18: and he, that was wiser than I, could say, Surely, I am more brutish than any man, and have not...of a man : I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy ; Prov. xxx. 2, 3. All the holiness that I have attained unto, is, to see and...

...have, the more they see and bewail their ignorance, as did that wise man mentioned in Prov. xxx. 2 : " I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man ;" namely, in comparison of what he ought to.' know of God. The more faith he has, the more he bewails...

...cunning is derived. Be as mean as thou wilt, my son, in thine own eyes : say with Agur the son of Jakeh, Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not...understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Prov. xxx. 2, 3. But whatever thou art in thyself, know what thou art, or mayest...

...Let us not • Job xi. 7—9. presume to apply our short line to immensity. " Surely," said Agur, " I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended ? who hath gathered the wind...

...great and important things of God, that do concern souls so very nearly. Agur is brought in saying, " I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man ;" (Prov. xxx. 2.) when there is a very humble, self-abasing opinion taken up and maintained of our...

...Even THI ГВОРВЕСТ : THE MAN SPAKE UNTO ITBIEL, EVEN иято ITBIEL AND UCAL. 2 Surely I nm and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles : and t 3 I neither learned wisdom, Nor * have the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven,...

...divine nature, we must come every one to the conclusion that Agur makes on the like consideration ; ' Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not...understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended 1 who hath gathered the wind...