 | Samuel Nott - 1828 - 412 páginas
...reproved, say. " let the righteous smite me and it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me. and it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head.'' Yes, receive reproof — ever hear the reproof of life, and you will feel it to be a kindness as long... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 538 páginas
...chief duties ; and privileges too. Faithful are the wounds of a friend : and so David valued them — " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...be an excellent oil which shall not break my head : for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." Moses makes the omission the proof of hatred... | |
 | 1829 - 560 páginas
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Ussher - 1829 - 118 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Angell James - 1829 - 216 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 606 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 páginas
...dainties. way in me, and lead me in the 5 Let the righteous smite me ; way everlasting. PSALM CXL. it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me \ it shall be an ejcelDavid prayeth against his Eneent oiî, which shall not break my mies. 1Í To the chief Musician,... | |
 | William Bates - 1831 - 382 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | Rev. John BARR (of Glasgow.) - 1831 - 348 páginas
...meekly and thankfully bow to such brotherly treatment. The Psalmist, David, was enabled thus to act : " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head."f And every one who, like him, is ripening in holiness, will be enabled to adopt his language... | |
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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. 
