 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 256 pages
...things which belong to their peace. " Let the righteous smite me," saith the Prophet David, "it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head." ' Far different is that idle and vicious curiosity, which searches with malignant zeal into the faults,... | |
 | 1838 - 1196 pages
...5 Let the righteous » smite me — it shall be a kindness : And let him reprove me — tí ¡hall cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. 8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord : In thee is... | |
 | 1838 - 668 pages
...complaint. I am not aware of any other. Idesireto be open to reproof, " Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me it shall be...yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." Pray for me, that I may be kept humble, faithful, and dependent, preaching the goijiel in the spirit... | |
 | John M'Donald (teacher of English) - 1838 - 188 pages
...rebuke thy neighbour', and not suffer sin upon him' . Ps. cxli. 5, 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'. Prov. xv. 32, He that refuseth instruction' despiseth his own soul': but he that heareth reproof getteth... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1838 - 584 pages
...kisses of an enemy are deceitful," and his father sings in vain, "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," if brethren and friends will not faithfully admonish, reprove, and exhort one another when it is necessary.... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1886 - 500 pages
...is but to keep us from the forbidden fruit of transgression. "Let the r'ujhtsous smite me; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." Let him smite mo as with a hammer, for so the word signifies. A Boanerges is as necessary as a Barnabas.... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1886 - 784 pages
...than the holiness of the person that reproves. " Let the riyhteous emite me," saith David, " it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." See how well it is taken from such a hand, from the authority that holiness carries with it. None but... | |
 | 1886 - 634 pages
...oil to be that of the righteous and not that of the sinner : " 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. li John i. 8. c Ps. CÍX. 2â. 1 See his /V Or. Dfi, v. 30, where he compares the truly pious man,... | |
 | 1887 - 222 pages
...reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which sl^all not break my head: for yet my prayer also s/utll be in their calamities. 6 When their judges are overthrown...bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. 8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is... | |
 | Martin Wells Knapp - 1887 - 196 pages
...rebuke, but that is done in love, and each soon learns to 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." They believe in witnessing for Jesus, and you can not make them believe that public service is the... | |
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