| John Wood Warter - 1844 - 608 pages
...Solomon in the Proverbs, " Open rebuke is better than secret love ;" and in the verse which follows, " Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful V Still, reproof must be administered with care. Nothing is more difficult than to do so 7 Ps. xl.... | |
| 1844 - 420 pages
...faithfully tells us the truth at all times, when that truth is painful. Yet he is our best friend. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful," Prov. xxvii. 6. If I am in danger of falling down a precipice, he shows to me the purest friendship... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 pages
...which flatterers were perpetually lavishing on him. because, " faithful 16* 186 UNITED STATES SPEAKER. are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." Had I not just reason to address him in this manner ? What has become of the crowd of courtiers ? They... | |
| 1872 - 722 pages
...a, kiss?" The caresses ™ me dissembler are more to be dreaded than the assassin's blow. iaithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are "eceitful," — the traitorous imprints of dissembled love. "• -Wflsembled kindness is doomed to... | |
| 1845 - 702 pages
...anger is outrageous; but who is able to stund before envy ? 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. 7 The full soul loutheth an honey-comb ; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. 8 As a... | |
| William Morrison Engles - 1845 - 204 pages
...brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Iron sharpeueth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. As in water face answereth... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1846 - 540 pages
...appear, than to the insipid praises which flatterers were perpetually lavishing on him, because, " faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." Had I not just reason to address him in this manner ? What has become of the crowd of courtiers ? They... | |
| D. L. Carroll - 1846 - 384 pages
...their calamity." — PSALM cxli. 5. SOLOMON has said that " open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." God has made Christian reproof a means of growth in grace. A disposition to receive such reproof meekly,... | |
| John Tricker Conquest - 1846 - 868 pages
...outrageous ; But who is able to stand before jealousy ? 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away. Turn, my beloved, and be tbou l 7 The full soul loathf-th the honeycomb ; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing ie sweet. 8 As... | |
| D. L. Carroll - 1846 - 386 pages
...their calamity." — PSALM cxli. 5. SOLOMON has said that " open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." God has made Christian reproof a means of growth in grace. A disposition to receive such reproof meekly,... | |
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