 | Alexander Geddes - Bible - 1807 - 290 pages
...whole heart. 70 tO. Their heart is curdled like milk : lut I delight in thy law. 71 tO. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 tO. Better to me is the law of thy mouth, than thousands of gold and silver. JOD. 73 \ Thy hands... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...ample, bears full testimony to- their utility. " Before I was afflicted, I went astray : but no\r " have I kept thy word." " It is good for me that '•** -I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy sta" totes.*1 He .had good reason, therefore, to subjoift, " I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1808 - 402 pages
...danger and of their want. SERMON XXX1I1. THIS LIFE A STATE OF PROBATION. • PSALM cix. 71. " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. " OF the various views, under which human life has been considered, no one seems so reasonable, as... | |
 | George Buist - Sermons, American - 1809 - 422 pages
...the ideas contained in this particular. " It is good for me that 1 have " been afflicted. Before I was afflicted, I " went astray ; but now have I kept thy "word. I thought on my ways, and turned "my feet unto thy testimonies. tl made " haste, and delayed not to... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge : for I have believed thy commandments. 67 Before I 68 Tnou art good, and doest good ; teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...keep Thy commandments. Thou hast dealt well with Thy servant, O LORD, according to Thy word. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept Thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted i that I might learn Thy statutes. , They that fear Thee, will .be glad when they... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...earnest in prayer with God. Ps. cxix. 6J1, 71. ' Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I have kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.' Hos. v. 14, 15. ' I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...and instead of long life on earth, he giveth them eternal lite in heaven. Psalm cxix. 71, It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Isa. Ivii. 1, The righteous perisheth, and merciful men are taken away from the evil to come. 1 John... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Psal. cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted : that I might learn thy statutes. 1 Cor. xv. 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - Christian life - 1810 - 122 pages
...been brought nearer to God than ever. The Psalmist saith, in his address to the Most High, " before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." (Psalm exist. 67.) " We glory in tribulations," saith the Apostle Paul, « knowing that tribulation... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
