Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity. Sermons
I. THE POWER OF GIFTS. (Ver. 14.) They are neither good nor evil in themselves, but may be employed for good or evil ends. Let us make a good use of this text. We learn that gifts should be quiet, unobtrusive, unobserved; and the same is true of all acts of kindness which are real gilts from the heart. They should neither irritate pride nor depress independence. By such little attentions and marks at love, how much evil may be warded off, how many asperities of temper or circumstance may be soothed! II. DELIGHT IN OR DISGUST FOR RIGHT CONDUCT. (Ver. 15). There is no joy in the world to be compared for depth and purity to that of the good conscience; no exercise that brings so much health and pleasure as acting rightly and doing good. But the corrupt mind of evil men can take no delight in looking at goodness, in contemplating pure and noble conduct. For the consequences can only be the judgment and punishment of their own iniquity. III. THE END OF ALL MORAL OBSERVATIONS. (Ver. 16.) One of the most solemn passages of the Bible. Taken literally or figuratively, of the present or of the future, they contain a statement, a prophecy, a fact. The wicked and unrepentant pass into a night without the hope of a sunrise to follow. IV. THE END OF IDLE AND FRIVOLOUS MIRTH. (Ver. 17.) He that will squander more than his plough can earn must utterly waste (Sirach 8:32). Magnum vectigal est parsimonia, or "Economy is income;" "Waste not, want not." "Better than merry Nineveh" is recorded as an old proverb (see Zephaniah 2:15). - J.
It is joy to the just to do Judgment. The text virtually says, When good magistrates discharge their trust faithfully, and execute justice impartially, all honest and good men are greatly rejoiced at it, but it brings a sore terror and consternation upon the workers of iniquity.I. IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO A JUST MAN TO DO JUSTICE. 1. Because it is acting according to his own inclinations. It is always pleasant to a man to pursue the natural or habitual inclinations of his mind. Even evil and naughty inclinations make it pleasant in some degree for the time to act according to them. 2. Because he knows that he does well in so doing, and that his action is approved by Almighty God. 3. Because of the assured hope it gives him of God's favour, who is evermore a lover and rewarder of the upright. 4. Because it is a high honour done him by Almighty God to be employed in doing part of His work. For it is God that is the great doer of justice to all His creatures. II. IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE TO THE SPECTATORS, IF THEY BE RIGHTEOUS AND GOOD MEN, TO SEE GOOD MAGISTRATES FAITHFULLY DISCHARGING THEIR DUTY IN THE EXECUTION OF JUSTICE. 1. Because this is a thing so very necessary and so beneficial to mankind. 2. There are some particular eases wherein it is more especially a pleasant thing to do justice or to see it well done. III. THE EXECUTION OF JUSTICE IS TERRIBLE TO EVIL-DOERS. It must needs be so, since it is they who suffer by it. IV. INJUSTICE AND WICKEDNESS WILL MOST CERTAINLY BRING A MAN TO RUIN WITHOUT REPENTANCE. In this world it cannot otherwise be but some will escape from justice, as it is executed by men. There is One above whom no man can deceive, none can bribe, who will not fail to do right to all. This doctrine will afford us motives sufficient to the duties which all or any of us are now called to. 1. To choose such a magistrate as we believe will be faithful to the trust reposed in him. 2. To discharge the great trust of magistracy accordingly, and so as to answer the hopes and expectations of good men. 3. To be aiding and assisting in the doing thereof, which is every one's duty as he has ability and opportunity. 4. To behave ourselves so that a good magistrate faithfully discharging his trust may be no terror, but a joy and comfort to us. (Samuel Barton, D. D.) People SolomonPlaces JerusalemTopics Brings, Destruction, Dismay, Evil, Evildoers, Exercise, Iniquity, Joy, Judgment, Justice, Justly, Righteous, Ruin, Terror, WorkersOutline 1. The king's heart in the hand of the LordDictionary of Bible Themes Proverbs 21:15 5257 civil authorities Library Definition of Actual Grace1. GENERAL NOTION OF GRACE.--The best way to arrive at a correct definition of actual grace is by the synthetic method. We therefore begin with the general notion of grace. Like "nature,"(3) grace (gratia, {GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI}{GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO}{GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA}{GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA}) is a word of wide reach, used in a great variety of senses. Habert(4) enumerates no less than fourteen; which, however, may be reduced to four. a) Subjectively, … Joseph Pohle—Grace, Actual and Habitual Epistle xxi. To Constantina Augusta . Epistle Cvi. To Syagrius, Ætherius, virgilius, and Desiderius, Bishops . How the Slothful and the Hasty are to be Admonished. How those are to be Admonished who Desire not the Things of Others, but Keep their Own; and those who Give of their Own, yet Seize The Heavenly Footman; Or, a Description of the Man that Gets to Heaven: "And the Life. " How Christ is the Life. How Christ is the Way in General, "I am the Way. " An Analysis of Augustin's Writings against the Donatists. Paul's Departure and Crown; Proverbs Links Proverbs 21:15 NIVProverbs 21:15 NLT Proverbs 21:15 ESV Proverbs 21:15 NASB Proverbs 21:15 KJV Proverbs 21:15 Bible Apps Proverbs 21:15 Parallel Proverbs 21:15 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 21:15 Chinese Bible Proverbs 21:15 French Bible Proverbs 21:15 German Bible Proverbs 21:15 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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