| 1822 - 500 sivua
...garment spotted by the flesh." How excellent is the language of the Psalmist on this subject ! • • 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." Ps. cxli. 5. How did his character shine, when... | |
| Robert Searles - 1823 - 114 sivua
...how unwilling is something within me to submit, in truth, unto that declaration of the Psalmist : " Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness;...be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head : for yet ray prayer also shall be in their calamities." Ol how I did think of this passage, and try... | |
| Charles Bradley (Vicar of Glasbury.) - 1823 - 370 sivua
...the world, hath, abundant reason to put up the same prayers, and to use the same precautions. 5. ' Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness...shall be an excellent ' oil, which shall not break,' or depress, ' my head : for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities, or against their wickedness.'... | |
| Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 sivua
...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... | |
| 1823 - 580 sivua
...men who work wickedness ; suffer me not to partake of their dainties. 6. Let the righteous correct me, it shall be a kindness ; and let him reprove me, it shall be oil upon my head : I will not refuse it, though it should be repeated : but save me from the malice... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1824 - 428 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 - 522 sivua
...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... | |
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