...incidents of ycjur present calamity, and say, It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Before I was afflicted, I went • astray, but now have I kept thy word. This bereavement may be intended to exalt your character by calling into exercise your religious principles....

...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge : for I have believed thy commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept thy word. 68 Thou art good, and doest good : teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me...

...her hand, and the fever left her : and ehe arose, and ministered unto them, Matt. viii. 15. Before I was afflicted, I went astray : but now have I kept thy word, Psal. cxix. 67. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy Etatutes, 71....

...For he maketh sore, and biadetti up ; he woundeth, and his hands make whole, Job v. J7, 18. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. I know, O Lord, thy...

...word. 66. Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. 67. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. 69. The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole 68. Thou art...

...chastenest, O Lord! and teachest him out of thy law. It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life...

...heaven. Thus David fouri'd 'it. " It is good for me," says he, " that'I have been afflicted." " Before'! was afflicted, I went astray: but now have I kept thy word."* Thus the scattered Christians found it to whom St. Peter writes. They " greatly rejoiced" at the very...

...David was a case in point, when he said, "it is good for me that I have been afflicted," and, "before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." That these apparent exceptions shall always prove so, in the case of the righteous, we have no doubt;...

...saying, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes; before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word." Nor is it merely in affliction in general that the goodness of God is manifest, but in its peculiar...

...help." " I will give you that, which 1 hope, under your guidance, my future life may prove : ' Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word.' " " A twelvemonth hence I shall do it more justice, I hope, so you must allow me to substitute this...