...different is the state of others ! They have been stripped of " lover and friend :" those with whom they " took sweet counsel together and walked to the house of God in company," are no more : their meana of hospitality and enjoyment are reduced to straits 'and privation ; or they...

...himself against me; then I would have hid myself; but it was thou, a man mine equal and my acquaintance. "We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company." It is lamentable it should so often happen that the saints of God fail to fulfil the revealed will...

...this; then I could have borne it: but it was thou, —a man mine equal, my guide, and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company." Then it was that he said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I fly away and be at rest....

...I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in company. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, Tet war was in his heart. His words were softer than...

...their occupations or in their amusements; nor were they separated in their religious duties. " They took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company;" and it is also stated, on good authority, that they had established the worship of God in their family,...

...Cor. i. 11, 12, 13. » 1 Cor. xi. 18 ; 2 Cor. xii. 20. the same place, and who had formerly " taken sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company," no longer join in the same acts of public and social worship. Altar is reared against altar, as if...

...that my sufferings came from my spiritual counsellors, and my wrong from religious connexions : for ' We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company.' No, for the sake of religion, lest the enemies of the royal family should triumph, I will secretly...

...added." This was their marriage license, and through the long period of fifty years, during which " they took sweet counsel together" and walked to the house of God in company, that promise waa graciously and liberally fulfilled. True they had many of what the world would call...

...His terrors make me afraid when I think upon thee, Charles, my brother ! The companion of my youth ; we took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God as friends. Thou ! the son of my mother, on whom, together with myself, she laid her hand of blessing,...

...down their infidelity in a moment. Wrangling christians and contentious divines would do the same. '"We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company," they would substitute for " strife and debate." We come now to the application. 1. Hence see that the...