...Cotterill once said on a public occasion, " is associated with the most eventful circumstances of my life. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." He had enjoyed in early life few opportunities of obtaining religious knowledge. His parents were respectable...

...? We can bear that from an avowed adversary, which we cannot bear from one in hahits of friendship. It was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could have borne it. To this they answer, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee. Had they any regard, then, for Isaac's...

...put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.' Psal. Iv. 12, &c. ' it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.. ..but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance ; we took sweet counsel together,...

...he spoke by prophecy the words of one far greater than himself, even David's Lord and God — " For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...and walked unto the house of God in company." The Lord foresaw that the reader was beginning to think too much of his acts of kindness; that, forgetting...

...can all adopt the language of David, in the fifty fifth psalm, if placed in a similar situation, For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...together, and walked unto the house of God in company. A third discouragement is the avowed determination of sinners to oppose all endeavors which are made...

...because the laws of friendship strictly prohibit every act but those of mutual kindness. David said, " It was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...together, and walked unto the house of God in company." And God brings you into acquaintance with him, that the love which his presence inspires may make you...

...the verge of the precipice, and then, with fiend-like disposition, have triumphed in their fall. " It was not an enemy that reproached me— then I could...together, and walked unto the House of God in company." Yours, faithfully, September 18, 1827. V1NDEX. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We earnestly request our Correspondents...

...head and hand should be in all this ; this made it more afflicting still, as he complaineth, " For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could...together, and walked unto the house of God in company."* That the general, he that headed the army against him, should be Amasa, the son of his sister Abigail...

...when he saw that his counsel was not followed.h This treachery David laments in several passages. " It was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked c Matt. xxvii. 46. Mark xv. 34. f Psalm xli. 9. John xiii. 18. unto the house of God in company." "The...

...affluence on the charities of the supporters of missions;—these will be blows extending to the heart. " It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could...mine equal, my GUIDE and mine acquaintance. We took tweet counsel together, and walked into the house of God in company." In the impatience of the public,...