| Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...inserted previous to the last, or 7th Letter of AHICVS. • *"V , Jaiji Z3, igir , . FAUL TO AHICUS. " LET the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness...reprove me it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not breakmy head ; for yet my prayer shall be for them." Ps. 141, 5. Though I am not conscious of using... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...ear-ring of gold, and as an ornament of fine gold, or as a diamond in a diadem. A humble David can say, Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head, Psalm cxli. 5. David compares the faithful reproof of the righteous to the excellent oil that they... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1824 - 428 pages
...epistle to the Dr. with whom he quarrels half in sincerity and half in jest, heapplies to him this motto. "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness;...be an excellent oil which shall not break my head. It •would be an act of cruelty in the Dr. tobesparin'gofhis blows and of his oil as it will be exceedingly... | |
| 1865 - 346 pages
...tone ; " but I have deserved it, and no reproofs you could have uttered would have been too severe. ' Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil.' You have taught me a lesson I will never forget, doctor, and I thank you for it. I must have been a... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 pages
...that we should not be condemned with the world!" " Let the righteous" God " thus smite me ; itshall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head," Ps. cxli. 5. SECTION V. ACCORDING to the merciful intentions of the Almighty, thus healing and sovereign... | |
| 1862 - 346 pages
...a duty to give reproof, it is obviously a duty to receive it. We should learn to say like David : " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness ; and let him reprove me, it shall be an :xcellent oil that shall not break my head." Choose as your friend, if you can, one who :s wiser, more... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...for him ; David hearkened and arose, and sat in the gate, as Joab advised. — 2 Sam. xix. 5 — 8. Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be as excellent oil which shall not break my head. — Ps. cxli. 5. A wise man will hear, and will increase... | |
| John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...for him ; David hearkened and arose, and sat in the gate, as Joab advised. — 2 Sam. xix. 5 — 8. Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be as excellent oil which shall not break my head. — Ps. cxli. 5. A wise man will hear, and will increase... | |
| John Walker - 1824 - 292 pages
...Congregation of Unity ana .Mountpleasant, Ohio. Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindnes*-' and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil" which shall not break my head. .Pual. 141. 51 246 A LETTER RET. SIR, WHILE we agree on (he subject of Bnpt neral, I am sorry lo tind... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...thine heart : thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him, Lev. zix. 17. Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities, Peal. cxli. 5. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another :... | |
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