John Trapp on Proverbs 4:6

Verſ. 6. Forſake her not, &c.] Wiſdome is her own reward: if ſhee forſake us, it is becauſe the deſertion is firſt on our part. But ſhee cannot but bee juſtified of her own true children: falling ſtars were never but Meteors: Temporaries were never Chriſtians indeed. What wonder though ſome hold falling from grace, ſith they miſtake common grace for true grace? Hence Bellarmine ſaith, That which is true grace, veritate eſſentiae, onely may bee loſt, not that that is true veritate firmae ſoliditatis: which latter being rightly underſtood, may bee called special, as the other common grace.

Love her, and ſhee ſhall keep thee] viz. From recidivation and utter Apoſtacy, cauſed by the overflow of iniquity, Mat. 24.12. 2 Theſ. 2.10, 11. This to prevent, Let knowledge and affection, like two individual twins, grow up together, and mutually transfuſe ſpiritual vigour into each other.