 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...would have hid myself from him.' ' But it was thou, my companion and mine own familiar friend.' ' We took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends.' ' The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart.' ' His words were smoother... | |
 | William Merry - 1839 - 112 pages
...released spirit to choose its own form of happiness, are there not those " with whom we have taken sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends ;"* and whose affection on earth had been steady, earnest, and well founded, who would scarcely desire... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1839 - 302 pages
...in this world's history ; deep in my heart's affections are those sweet tisters enshrined, who held sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends. Linked in love I saw them in my dream, and linked in love they still journey through this world's wilderness,... | |
 | Religion - 1840 - 308 pages
...youth, and in an university, free from self-ends, which the friendships of age usually are not: and in this sweet, this blessed, this spiritual amity...went on for many years : and, as the holy prophet saith, so " they took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends." By which... | |
 | Thomas Ken (bp. of Bath and Wells.) - 1840 - 160 pages
...pleasing reflection, that the friendship of these admirable men, thus begun when boys, when doubtless " they took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends," lasted on through all the vicissitudes of earthly fortune, till by the grace of God it strengthened... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1840 - 370 pages
...evening of life it will be your last and best of earthly pleasures to reflect, that here first you " took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends." NOTE. — In complying with a request that I would print this little sermon, hastily made for the occasion,... | |
 | Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton - Church of England - 1841 - 624 pages
...youth, and in an university, free from self-ends, which the friendships of age usually are not : and in this sweet, this blessed, this spiritual amity...went on for many years : and, as the holy Prophet saith, so " they took sweet counsel " together, and walked in the house of God as friends." By which... | |
 | Richard Waldo Sibthorp - 1842 - 110 pages
...so—not of the bitterness of anger but of grief, towards one whom we loved as a brother, with whom we " took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends." Is it then possible that we could witness your gradual declension without regret, and your grievous... | |
 | 1842 - 332 pages
...Psalmist speaks of him in the person of CHRIST, as " mine own familiar friend whom I trusted." " We took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of GOD as friends ;" but " he left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good : " and oh ! how altered did he become... | |
 | Samuel Sebastian Wesley - 1843 - 290 pages
...from him. 14. But it was even thou,' my companion : my guide, and mine' own fa'miliar friend. 15. We took sweet' counsel together : and walked in the' house of God as friends. 16. Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down' quick into hell : for wickedness is in... | |
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... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it. 
