| Solomon Southwick - 1834 - 340 pages
...men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me ; it shall be...for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.... | |
| William Jay - 1834 - 330 pages
...iv..l. FAITHFUL are the wounds of a friend. Hence said David, " Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall...yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." Would you deem a man your enemy, because he told you the truth ? especially if the intelligence was... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 380 pages
...recovery from sin, they are the more holy. It is David's desire,' Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head.' There is no counsel so truly valuable, as that which proceeds from wisdom and love in matters of importance.... | |
| 1834 - 428 pages
...than they are : but how very different is it to say and feel, " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness ; and let him reprove me, it shall be...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." Alas ! christian reproof is now denominated, envy; and whilst the virgin of Israel treads in the mire... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1834 - 384 pages
...entreat him as a father. LIX. To reprove one another. Ps. cxli. 5. Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness ; and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head. Prov. xxvii. 6. Prov. vi. 23. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life. xiii. 18. He that rcgardeth... | |
| John Mitchell - 1835 - 266 pages
...union ; and is valued as such by every truly spiritual member. " Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." " Faithful are the wounds of a friend." The faithful performance of this duty has no tendency to promote... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 652 pages
...making sharp their tongues for his destruction. CXLI. 5. — " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me, it shall be...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." Certain oils are said to have a most salutary effect on the head ; hence in fevers, or any other complaints... | |
| 1835 - 562 pages
...be like the deserted shell of a snail." ' ' Psalm cxli. 5.—" Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me, it shall be...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." "Psalm Ixxviii.64.—"Their widows made no lamentation.'' When the cholera morbus swept off such multitudes,... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1835 - 334 pages
...this duty. Rather make the language of the Psalmist your own: " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." Add not to the bitterness of their official task by discovering a resentful temper, or by indulging... | |
| Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 652 pages
...making sharp their tongues for his destruction. CXLI. 5. — " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be. a kindness : and let him reprove me, it shall...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." Certain oils are said to have a most salutary effect on the head ; hence in fevers, or any other complaints... | |
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