 | John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 pages
...than that we should pray with David, " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise...work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties." J May our habitual temper agree with the apostolic precept, " Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger,... | |
 | 1829 - 560 pages
...admonitions with patience and with humility, like the Psalmist, who says, " Let the righteous smite me, ¡t shall be a kindness ; and let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break; 144 ON EVANGELICAL HOPE. my bead." An innocent person may be calumniated, and may be generally thought... | |
 | John Angell James - 1829 - 216 pages
...bear reproof with meekness. Few know how to give reproof with propriety, still fewer how to bear it. " 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." How small is the number who can adopt this language... | |
 | Elizabeth Ussher - 1829 - 118 pages
...would have afforded suitable instruction or reproof. I look not for consolation or encouragement, but "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." O were I to tell thee the various plungings of my... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 606 pages
...do him good ; but when once God hath turned his heart, he is quite of another mind. Then he saith, " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my headg." And he taketh open " rebuke better « 1 Pet. ii. 8. Rom. ix. 33. f Eccl. vii. 9. pPsal. cxli.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...here, " that we should not be condemned with the world," 1 Cor. xi. 32. " Let the righteous God thus smite me, it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head," Psa. cxli. 5. IX. According to the merciful intentions of the Almighty, thus healing and sovereign... | |
 | 1831 - 930 pages
...hands as the evening sacrifice*. 3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips. and Brewster, Munroe and Francis, and R.P. and C. Williams lie a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, wlucli shall not break my head... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...watch, O LORD, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to any evil tiling, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity:...dainties. 5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a excellent oil, which shall not break my head : for even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea,... | |
 | William Bates - 1831 - 382 pages
...world," 1 Cor. xi. 32. And this sweetens and allays all their sufferings ; as the Psalmist declares, " Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness:...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head," " Psalm cxli. 6. But the vindictive punishment of a malefactor is not to prevent his condemnation ;... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1831 - 338 pages
...with them for the performance of this duty. Rather make the language of the Psalmist your own ; — " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...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... | |
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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 : for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. 
