Proverbs 7
SIBProverbs 7:1-5
My dear young friends, let me again press upon your consciences to lay up my advices and instructions in your judgment, heart, and memory; and carefully, tenderly, and readily to observe and practise them. Make yourselves familiar with Jesus Christ, and his spiritual instructions, as the most powerful means of preservation from the ensnaring arts and flatteries of whorish women, which is a privilege of infinite importance
Proverbs 7:6-9
For, from my own window, I observed a thoughtless young fop, sauntering under night in the streets, and in a stately manner walking towards a corner which these infamous strumpets used to haunt
Proverbs 7:10-20
There, one dressed in a light and whorish manner, and extremely skilled in the arts of enticement,—one extremely talkative, ready to brawl with her husband, given to idle visiting, and gadding about to places of dissipation or concourse,—met him, caught him in her arms and kissed him, and in an impudent manner told him that, being a devout lady, she had that very day been offering thank-offerings to God; and, being to feast upon her share of the flesh thereof, she had solicitously sought him to take a part of it, and had happily found him; and that she had decked and perfumed her bed in the most engaging manner, in which they might riot all night in exquisite pleasures, without any danger, as the silly fellow called her husband was gone a long journey, had a great deal of business to transact, and ould not return till the full moon
Proverbs 7:21-23
Notwithstanding his shewing ome aversion at first, she, by her fair pretences and flattering speeches, quickly impelled him to follow her, as willingly, and no less stupidly, than an ox b to the slaughter, or a madman to the stocks, never thinking of any thing nt pleasure, till the enraged husband sheathe his sword in his bowels, or the Judgments of God accomplish his irretrievable ruin!
Proverbs 7:24-27
Let me there- ore beseech you, my dear young men, whom I unfeignedly regard, diligently to observe and practise these warnings which I have repeatedly given you. ever indulge the smallest inclination towards such women; never listen to their citicements; never indulge the smallest fellowship or familiarity with such; ever hope to be safe in, or to return from, such courses: for many, even of those noted in valour and wisdom, have been totally ruined in reputation, estate, y, and soul, by such women, and fellowship with them is the certain road to miserable death, and eternal damnation
REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VII.—It is necessary to love, search, and meditate , God’s law day and night; and to make it the constant food of our heart, and andard of our life. Then should we find therein the most sanctifying virtue. Ma- gistrates and ministers should carefully inspect the people committed to their charge! And there is need of frequent and fervent prayers to God for our friends and neighbours, as we know not in what guilt fearful temptations may involve them, if not overcome. The devil quickly finds business for idle and unseasonable unterers, especially if young. And, when women are once addicted to flaunting, , and gaudy, apparel, and to wheedling in love matters, and are extremely kative, and given to an unsettled and dissipated course, it will require no pains to make harlots of them. Terribly base and impudent those women become, who have thrown off the restraints of modesty peculiar to their sex. And sad is the case when husbands and wives are glad to be rid of one another’s company. It is shameful, wicked, and ruinous, when Satan and his abominable agents or lusts are, in days of youth, preferred to Jesus Christ and his grace. But fearful and speedy destruction, from the crime itself, or from the hand of God or man, awaits the whorish adulterer. Surely then we should be solicitous to improve the falls and miseries of others, as a warning for us to take heed, lest, in the same thoughtless and inconsiderate manner, we hurry ourselves into everlasting ruin