| Thomas Coke - 1811 - 560 pages
...been contemplating, and finds, among the friends of Jesus Christ, a mirror in every feeling breast. " As iron sharpeneth iron, " so doth the countenance of a man his friend;" and perhaps we may .add, without making any unwarrantable assumption, that the feelings of the soul... | |
| David Ramsay - 1815 - 286 pages
...not deem it so, since I mean not to teach, bat merely, according to the sentiment of the wise man, as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend, to speak freely to my much esteemed Eliza., and in compliance with the precept of the Apostle, " to... | |
| Martha Laurens Ramsay - 1815 - 288 pages
...not deem it so, since I mean not to teach, but merely, according to the sentiment of the wise man, as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend, to speak freely to my much esteemed Eliza, and in compliance with the precept of the Apostle, " to... | |
| 1848 - 396 pages
...the woodland, the lay of the mother and the laugh of the child ; and, to use Scripture Ianguage, " as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend." Verily, he is in the right who uses for good—and only for good—the deathless attribute of sympathy... | |
| John Griffin - 1819 - 302 pages
...pious, aged, and established members of the church. This was a considerable disadvantage to him, for as " iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend." Habits of activity and benevolence are seldom formed from merely reading; they generally arise from... | |
| 1822 - 666 pages
...you in the hour of dissolution ! He will never leave you nor forsake you ; not feel it a burthensomc task to serve you. While life lasts, he will represent...pray for your eternal welfare in another. " As iron sharpencth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend." There subsists a reciprocity of ideas,... | |
| Simeon Ashe - 1823 - 232 pages
...striking together of a cold flint and cold steel, and there comes out fire : as, saith the wise man, ' Iron sharpeneth iron ; so doth the countenance of a man his friend.' In the latter of these, called conference meetings, the light which the Lord is pleased to cast on... | |
| Samuel Stennett - 1824 - 506 pages
...discouraging doubts which perplexed his mind, and of many sad burdens which oppressed his heart. ' As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend b' And the sympathy, to say no more of it, which arises out of such discourse, prudently managed, hath... | |
| James Montgomery - 1824
...encounter the same kind of hostility, privation, and suffering, to which he had been exposed ; but, " as iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend :" — three, in difficult circumstances, are more than proportionately better than one ; for, by the... | |
| Henry Moore - 1826 - 338 pages
...you. For, indeed, in the most literal sense, I am become a little child, and want continual succour. ' As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend.' I feel much comfort and support from religious conversation, when I can obtain it. Formerly I rejoiced... | |
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