Here is, 1. The honour and happiness of the obedient. They will receive
commandments; they will take it as a privilege, and really an ease to
them, to be under government, which saves them the labour of
deliberating and choosing for themselves; and they will take it as a
favour to be told their duty and admonished concerning it. And this is
their wisdom; those are wise in heart who are tractable, and those who
thus bend, thus stoop, shall stand and be established, shall prosper,
being well advised. 2. The shame and ruin of the disobedient, that will
not be governed, nor endure any yoke, that will not be taught, nor take
any advice. They are fools, for they act against themselves and their
own interest; they are commonly prating fools, fools of lips, full of
talk, but full of nonsense, boasting of themselves, prating spitefully
against those that admonish them (3 John 10), and pretending to give
counsel and law to others. Of all fools, none more troublesome than the
prating fools, nor that more expose themselves; but they shall fall
into sin, into hell, because they received not commandments. Those that
are full of tongue seldom look well to their feet, and therefore
stumble and fall.