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Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. BY THE REV. WILLIAM ARNOT, ST. PETER’S FREE CHURCH, GLASGOW. Second Series. Vol. 2 LONDON: T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW; EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK. MDCCCLVIII. 1858  TO THE READER. WHILE, as a series of practical comments upon texts selected from a Book of Scripture, the two volumes now published constitute one whole; yet, from the nature of the sub- jects, and the manner in which they have been treated, each is complete in itself, and independent of the other. For the sake of those who may see this volume first, or this volume only, the explanatory note which was pre- fixed to the former volume is reprinted here:— These Illustrations of the Proverbs are not critical, continuous, exhaustive. The comments, in imitation of the text, are intended to be brief, practical, miscellaneous, isolated. The reader may, however, perceive a principle of unity running through the whole, if he take his stand at the outset on the writers view-point—a desire to lay the Christian System along the surface of common life, without removing it from its foundations in the doctrines of Grace. The authority of the instructions must be divine: the form transparently human. Although the lessons should, with a pliant familiarity, lay themselves along the line of mens thoughts and actions, they will work no deli- verance, unless redeeming love be everywhere the power to press them in. On t