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Show Worldly Wisdom. As there is a worldly happiness which God perceives to be no more than disguised misery; as there are worldly honors which in his estimation estima-tion are reproach, so there Is a worldly world-ly wisdom which in his sight is foolishness. fool-ishness. Of this worldly wisdom the characters are given in the Scriptures, and placed in contrast with those of the wisdom which is from above. The one is the wisdom of the crafty, the other that of the upright; the one terminates in selfishness, the other in charity; the one is full of strife and bitter envyings, the other of mercy and of good fruits. Blair |