 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...towards whom submissness of carriage would both better become thee, and more avail to thy good. XXV. 9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another. If there be a difference betwixt thy neighbour and thee, take him aside, and in a friendly manner argue... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...towards whom submissness of carriage would both better become thee, and more avail to thy good. XXV. 9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another. If there be a difference betwixt thy neighbour and thee, take him aside, and in a friendly manner argue... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...to shame. 9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself i and discover not a secret to another : 10 1 1 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures cf silver. 12 An an ear-ring of gold, and... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...he puts thee to open shame, by shewing thou hast impleadcd him wrongfully, or for a trifle. Ver. 9. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself, and discover not a secret to another ;] Nay, let me advise thee. though thy cause be just and good, (yet the event being doubtful), to debate... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...especially of this holy and spiritual discourse. And, therefore, the Wise Man tells us, Prov. xxv. 11. that a 'word, fitly spoken^ is like apples of gold in pictures of silver : and, there is a time when the prudent should keep silenpe : Amos v. 13. Indeed, the mention... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 424 pages
...these are the most forceable. It is better gently to insinuate, than roughly to obtrude our advice. " A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." We should always be open to the counsel of our friends ; hear it with calmness, when it is... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. Prov. ccv. 9. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: Ver. 10. Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. 528 329 incurs",... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 332 pages
...third commandment. Here the gentlemen was so •truck, that he immediately desisted from swearing. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of sil. Ter." And, "a word spoken in due season, how good i« it." THE SKATER. AN Oxford doctor once,... | |
 | James Morison - Bible - 1810 - 292 pages
...unless called of God." HERS AJVDJ THE MtWUSCHiPT OF JM — BORN, DEC. 13, 1762— DIED, FEB. 20, 1809. A word fitly spoken, is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Prov. xxv. 11. A proverb or parable, is, in its letter or surface, like a net-work of silver... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...audience. ESSAY IX. . O?i the Prayer for the King's Majesty. THE wisest of men has declared, that " a " word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in " pictures of silver ;" the external part of which, consisting of silver curiously engraved, is beautiful and valuable;... | |
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Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. 
