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 Seeking Wisdom as Silver   “We everyday see with what anxious diligence men seek for silver. They fatigue their bodies, and waste their spirits; they destroy their health, and expose their lives; they even wound their consciences, and expose themselves to shameful deaths and everlasting misery, that they may load themselves with shining clay. Shall the professed disciples of the great Teacher set less value upon knowledge, than other men set upon silver?... It is therefore highly reasonable, that we diligently and carefully use all those means which God hath appointed for this end; that we hear sermons with earnest attention; that we read and search the word of God, and make it the subject of our frequent meditation; that we make use of edifying conversation; that we go to the wise, who have the law of God in their hearts, whose mouths speaks wisdom, and tongues talk of judgment. To the use of such means of improvement as these, we must add prayer for the divine blessing, to render them effectual to our instruction and salvation.”     – George Lawson (1749-1820)  
Paul's Life and Service "Paul, in the prosecution of his high purpose and great commission, We thus see him travelling from country to country; Enduring every species of hardship and privation; Encountering every extremity of danger; Assaulted by the populace; punished by the magistrate; Scourged, beaten, stoned, and left for dead; Expecting everywhere the same treatment and the same dangers; Yet when driven from one city, preaching in the next; Spending his whole time in proclaiming Christ and Him crucified; Sacrificing pleasure, ease, safety, worldly position; Persisting in this course for more than thirty years; Unaltered by the experience of ingratitude, perverseness, prejudice; Unsubdued by anxiety, want, labor, persecution; Unwearied by long-continued conflict; Undismayed by the prospect of a violent death: The love of Christ and of souls his great constraining motive; A glorious monument of the power and riches of divine grace." -– Thomas Robinson (c. 1870), from  Suggestive Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (1870), pg. 5
 Seeking Wisdom as Silver   “We everyday see with what anxious diligence men seek for silver. They fatigue their bodies, and waste their spirits; they destroy their health, and expose their lives; they even wound their consciences, and expose themselves to shameful deaths and everlasting misery, that they may load themselves with shining clay. Shall the professed disciples of the great Teacher set less value upon knowledge, than other men set upon silver?... It is therefore highly reasonable, that we diligently and carefully use all those means which God hath appointed for this end; that we hear sermons with earnest attention; that we read and search the word of God, and make it the subject of our frequent meditation; that we make use of edifying conversation; that we go to the wise, who have the law of God in their hearts, whose mouths speaks wisdom, and tongues talk of judgment. To the use of such means of improvement as these, we must add prayer for the divine blessing, to render them effectual to our instruction and salvation.”     – George Lawson (1749-1820)  
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