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TEXT:   PSALMS 2:1-12.

Wisdom is the mind’s eye, by which we see all the secrets of nature and mysteries of state, and discern between good and evil, and prudently guide all the affairs of life, as the helm to a ship. She is the chief of the four cardinal virtues; and may rightly be termed the hinge that turns them all about. The four virtues are: wisdom to direct, justice to correct, temperance to abstain, fortitude to sustain. Wisdom gives a good relish to virtue. Discretion is the salt of all our actions, without which nothing that is done or spoken is savory. What doth pregnancy of wit, or maturity of judgment, or felicity of memory, or variety of reading, or multiplicity of observation, or gracefulness of delivery, speed a man that want wisdom and discretion to use them? In the scriptures fourfold wisdom is mentioned. Godly wisdom is piety worldly wisdom is policy, fleshly wisdom is sensuality and devilish wisdom is mischievous subtlety.

Of this heavenly light, this godly wisdom, we will display four beams:

1. To provide for our eternal estate after this life, in the first place.
2. To inform ourselves certainly how we stand in the court of heaven: whether God’s countenance shine upon us, or there be a cloud between it and us.
3. To consider what infirmities or maladies of mind our natural constitution, state, place, or

Profession, or course of life makes us most subject unto, and to furnish ourselves with store of remedies against them; marking where we are most open to temptation and to be    watchful there.

4. To observe the carriage of all affairs in this great city of the world, and to set a mark upon

God’s wonderful protection and care over the godly, and His fearful judgments upon the wicked.

PRAYER: Father, please help me to deal wisely in the affairs of life.