A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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A. L. Waring.

FRIENDSHIP.

A friend loveth at all times.—Proverbs, xvii. 17.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.—Proverbs, xviii. 24.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.—Matthew, xi. 19.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.—James, iv. 4.

O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,

Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart;

Whose hours, whose bed, whose meat, and exercise,