...? We can bear that from an avowed adversary, which we cannot bear from one in hahits of friendship. It was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could have borne it. To this they answer, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee. Had they any regard, then, for Isaac's...

...put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.' Psal. Iv. 12, &c. ' it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.. ..but it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance ; we took sweet counsel together,...

...when he saw that his counsel was not followed.h This treachery David laments in several passages. " It was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked c Matt. xxvii. 46. Mark xv. 34. f Psalm xli. 9. John xiii. 18. unto the house of God in company." "The...

...actions from them ; when we would have disregarded much worse conduct in persons indifferent to us. " It was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." The mutual confidence which is requisite to friendship renders fidelity...

...head and hand should be in all this ; this made it more afflicting still, as he complaineth, " For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company."* That the general, he that headed the army against him, should be...

...can all adopt the language of David, in the fifty fifth psalm, if placed in a similar situation, For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. A third discouragement is the avowed determination of sinners to...

...because the laws of friendship strictly prohibit every act but those of mutual kindness. David said, " It was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." And God brings you into acquaintance with him, that the love which...

...such an evil man, that she was part of his household and under his government. "It was not an enemy; then I could have borne it. Neither was it he that hated me in days past; for then I would have hid myself from him. But it was the man mine equal, my guide, my...

...and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Revelation 19:11. BETRAYED BY HIS OWN: For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. Psalms 55:1214. I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen:...

...treachery here in Psalm 55 has the added sting of being betrayal by a close and trusted friend: "For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could...acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." David's mind goes back to the old days, when he reigned in the affections...