...thy foot from their path : 16 7For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely O = > 18 And they lay wait for their own blood ; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways...

...the thought of the sin spoils the pleasure of the bait, and they have no more relish for it—"surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." (Prov. i. 17.) Yet the great weakness of the heart is sometimes forgetful; and a lingering desire runs...

...employ the same means for two distinct ends. Birds know all their enemies, even the subtlest. " Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird," says Solomon, and how well they know the hated owl and all its foibles. Birds and beasts, without end,...

...the clearest knowledge of the villain's purpose, you rush, with open eyes, into his snare. " Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." My concluding admonitions, bearing equally upon servants of both sexes, go to enjoin a special regard...

...infidels. One grand device of the devil is to beget a disbelief in his own existence, for he knows that " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. 1 : 17. This done he springs his snare, and his victims " are taken captive by him at his will,"...

...The books of the society put us up to all the snares that are laid to catch the drunkard, and surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." " Well," says Sam, " there is something in what you say, but there is a thing that I could never get...

...infidels. One grand device of the devil is to beget a disbelief in his own existence, for he knows that " in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. 1 : 17. This done he springs his snare, and his victims " are taken captive by him at his will,"...

...by which the Christian traveller may avoid the many snares of the tempter and deceiver of men — " In vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."* There, is such a thing as spiritual prudence; there is, also, the restraint or denial of self. These...

...animal were to see the trap, he would never be caught, he would flee from it ; therefore, " Surely ', in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." The devil knows this, — he knows how to catch us, better than the game keeper knows how to trap his...

...bird out of tho snnre of the fowlers: tho snare is broken, and wo are escaped. Prov. i, 17. Surely from after tbem, to wit, the golden calves that icc Prov. Til, 23. Till a dart strike through ills liver; as a bird uaxteth to tho snare, and knowetli...