| 1809 - 618 páginas
...Psalmist will bs frequently their language : ' Let the righteous smite me, — it shall be a kindness ; let him reprove me, — it shall be an excellent oil,...my head ; for yet my prayer also shall be in their 'calamity.' Surely, the Psalmist saw the excellence of brotherly reproof. How affectionately he invites... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 páginas
...expositors. Psalm cxix, 36, "Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not tb• covetousness." Psalm cxli, 4, "Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity." Isaiah Ixiii, 17, "O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? and hardened our heart from... | |
| Elizabeth Ussher - 1812 - 172 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 io tell thee the various plungings of my... | |
| 1816 - 596 páginas
...embrace an early opportunity of discharging the demand which has thus been made upon his gratitude. " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities." The mediums of tendering advice, or of conveying censure, arc certainly various : — and in selecting... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 páginas
..."The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death," chap. xiii. 14. " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head," Psal. cxli. 5. May God always continue a succession of such righteous men, and may he incline our hearts... | |
| 1819 - 492 páginas
...spurn the admonitions, of their poorer brethren. How opposite is this to the spirit of true piety ! " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...not break my head : for yet my prayer also" shall be for them " in their calamities." To derive the full advantage of all our brethren's efforts to do us... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 70 páginas
...to convince and to heal, these are our benefactors indeed. " Faithful are the wounds of a friend." " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness,...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." If the subject now discussed, appear of less magnitude, than those on which it is usually my effort... | |
| 1846 - 810 páginas
...persons can bear to be told of their faults ; fewer still are wise enough to say with the Psalmist, " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...be an excellent oil which shall not break my head," Ps. cilv. 5. And the language of faithful admonition was peculiarly unwelcome to Gertrude, whose ears... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 68 páginas
...to convince and to heal, these are our benefactors indeed. " Faithful are the wounds of a friend." " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness,...an excellent oil, which shall not break my head." If the subject now discussed, appear of less magnitude, than those on which it is usually my effort... | |
| James Wilson - 1814 - 342 páginas
...being nearly similar in signification, I therefore shall consider both under one head. Psalm CXLI, 4, " Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works, with men that work iniquity." The heart which offered up both of these prayers, was previously inclined to God and to his testimonies... | |
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