...her streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that 5 Every day they wrest my words : all their thoughts are reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither...magnify himself against me ; then I would have hid against me for evil. 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when...

...come very near to him, and try his spirit. The words of the psalmist seem applicable to this case, " It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could...neither was it he that hated me, that did magnify liimself against me, then I would have hid myself from him. But it was THOU — my guide and mine acquaintance....

...come very near to him, and try his spirit. The words of the psalmist seem applicable to this case, " It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it ; neither was it he that hated me, dial did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him. But it was THOU — my...

...always looked upon him as a saint, and an eminent saint, and delighted in him as such. Ps. Iv. 13, 14. " But it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance; we took sweet counsel together; we went to the house of God in company." And besides, we are nowhere directed to judge of men chiefly...

...always looked upon him as a saint, and an eminent saint, and delighted in him as such. Ps. Iv. 13, 14. " But it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance; we took sweet counsel together; we went to the house of God in company." And besides, we are nowhere directed to judge of men chiefly...

...midst of it. 11 Wickedness is In the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I...against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 14 We took sweet counsel together,...

...when he fell ; it was almost too much for him : " It was not an enemy — then I could have borne it : but it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and...together, and walked unto the house of God in company." It is with professors of religion, especially such as become so in a time of out-pouring of the Spirit...

...his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. Ps. Iv. 12—14. For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then...together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ROM. viii. 28—30. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them...

...many years her members and her friends. The Bible Society might say, with the church in the Psalm, " It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God in company." Yes, they were men for many years members of the Society — men some...

...wounded affection and disappointed hope, on his cruelty and ingratitude. " It was not," he exclaims, " an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne...did magnify himself against me, then I would have hidden myself from him ; but it was thou, the man of my esteem, my pride, and 272 my familiar friend."*...