Not only "get," "keep," and "love" her, but also "exalt her." We are apt to think less of those things which we have, however precious, after the novelty has worn off. Beware of this feeling in religion. Religion richly repays in kind all that we can do to "embrace" her. She exalts them who exalt her (Psa. xxx. 1), and gives them fresh reason for exalting her (Psa. xxxvii. 34).--_Fausset._ Verse 9. She is the diadem which bindeth up the shattered thoughts of man's understanding: she it is which covereth and succoureth the broken cracks of man's invention: she it is which delivereth the authority of sovereignty to the head, and maketh the head to be the head, in bearing rule and commanding the inferior affections and lusts of the heart and other members.--_Jermin._ Crowns were anciently given to many sorts of persons as tokens of general favour and esteem. 1. To wise men and learned; to those who excelled in the arts and sciences. Godly-wise men deserve them much better. 2. To men famous for justice and other moral virtues; to good lawmakers and judges. Godly-wise men excel in theological virtues, which are far more excellent. 3. To conquerors. A wise man is a conqueror over his passions and affections, which make other men, and great ones too, very slaves. 4. To bridegrooms when they were married. A wise man is married to Wisdom, the fairest bride in the world. 5. To kings on their coronation day. So shall godly men be crowned when they die. They know how to rule their own souls here, and to direct others, and to get an eternal crown in Heaven. A beggar being once asked what he was, answered: "I am a king!" "Where is thy kingdom?" "It is in my soul. I can so rule my external and internal senses that all the faculties of my soul are subject to me." And who doubts that this kingdom is better than all the kingdoms of the world?--_Francis Taylor._ Verse 11. He may boldly call to be heard who himself doth what he teacheth. Christ placeth doing before teaching (Matt. viii. 19), for good doing leading the way, though teaching doth not follow, yet good works can, as clear as the light, teach those that look upon us. Paul saith, "We have received grace and apostleship to the _obedience_ of faith;" one would have thought he should have said rather to the government and direction of faith, but he saith, _obedience_, because examples do direct and govern better than words.--_Jermin._ The two branches which constitute the sum of parental tuition--_instruction_ and _direction_--teaching truth and guiding to duty. The one part relates to _knowledge,_ the other to _practice._ In all rightly conducted education, the two should never be disjoined. To teach duty without truth is to teach action without motive--virtue without its principle. To teach truth without duty is to teach motive without the practice to which it should lead. They are both partial, and, if kept asunder, both worthless.--_Wardlaw._