...anger is outrageous ; But who is able to stand before envy? Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb ; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. As a bird...

...but with the well advised is '• wisdom". " He that is of a proud heart stirretli up " strife". " Faithful are the wounds of a friend : but " the kisses of an enemy are deceitful". Prov. xiii. 10. and xxviii. 25.—xxvii. 6. That in order to avoid the influence of self-deceit we...

...appear, than to the insipid praises which " flatterers were perpetually lavishing on you, because " [k] Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the " kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Had I not just rea" son to address you in this manner? What is become " of the croud of courtiers ?...

...Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward : he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. The full soul loatheth an honeycomb ; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. Ointment and perfume...

...not thine own mouth ; .a stranger, and not thine own lips. Open rebuke is better than secret love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel....

...complimentn and flattering «*7 /iressions ought therefore to be aus/iccled. The full soul Icathtlli an honeycomb ; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet : thin ihows the advantage of pvaerltf, tnd the vanity */' that wandereth from his place, who forsakes...

...alteration and change of taste the full-fed are apt to feel, (according to thpse words of Solomon elsewhere, The full soul loatheth an honey-comb ; but to the hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet,*) may find something it may eat with relish and pleasure. The preparing a mere sufficiency of food fully...

...secret love. 6 Fakhful arc the wounds of a friend ; but the kis>esof an enemy «rr deceitful. 7 Tlie K fi-om her nest, so is a man that wanderetli from lus place. Observations on true love,&e. CHAP. 9 Ointment...

...hath given a keen appetite after spiritual provision, but what can eat of the dishes of my cooking: "The full soul loatheth an honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet;" even reproofs, rebukes, burdens, fears, terrors, wrath, and bondage, to such a soul, are better than...

...him finds more favour in his eyes than he that flatters with his lips, Prov. xxviii. 23. Sweet to him are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful, Prov. xxvii. 6. Thus does the Holy Spirit communicate power, life, honesty, and sincerity, with the...