 | Elizabeth Ussher - 1812 - 172 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 io tell thee the various plungings of my... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - 1812 - 248 pages
...reason to put up the same prayers, and to use the same precautions. 5. Let the righteous smite me s it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent ml, which slmll not break, or, defiress, my head : for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities^... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...Prov. 13. 1 8. </) Prov. 19. i. (u) Prov, »8. 13. (•») Prtv. »7. 5, 6. (*) Pro.». »5. ia. (y) Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness ; and let him reprove roe, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head. (z) A scorner loveth not one that... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 pages
..."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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 810 pages
...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 - 70 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 68 pages
...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... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity : and let me not eat of their dainties. 5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness...for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities. 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. 7... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 544 pages
...admonition, for the preventing or recovery from sin, they are the more holy. It is David's desire, " let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness...be an excellent oil which shall not break my head." Psal. 141. 5. There is no counsel so truly valuable, as that which proceeds from wisdom and love in... | |
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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. 
