Proverbs 3

Proverbs 3:3

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart.

Lay thou fast hold on the everlasting mercy and truth of God, so as no evil occurrence may slacken thy confidence thereon; and, withal, be not thou removed from the exercise of mercy and truth, towards thy brethren; make much of these, and keep them close to thee, as thine own soul.

Proverbs 3:27

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Withhold not good from them, to whom it ought to be given or done, whether upon their deserving or upon their need, when God gives thee the power to perform it. IV. 16, 17. Their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. As the natural sleep arises from the vapours sent up out of the stomach, so doth the rest of these wicked men: when they have eaten wickedness as bread, and poured in violence and oppression as wine, then can they repose themselves, in a false quietness and contentment.