 | Henry Thompson - 1827 - 442 páginas
...Go, number Israel andJudah.' 141 SERMON X. THE ADVANTAGES OF AFFLICTION. PSALM CXIX. Ixvii. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word 163 SERMON XL DAVID A TYPE OF CHRIST. EZEK. XXXVII. xxiv. David my servant shall be king over them;... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 páginas
...he says : " 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." And then he adds, " Thou art good and doest good : teach me thy statutes." Thus acknowledging the goodness... | |
 | 1827 - 394 páginas
...alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word 1 Or have you rather dealt proudly—despised reproof-—sinned against judgments—and thus been treasuring... | |
 | Johnson Grant, Frances Augusta Bell - 1827 - 218 páginas
...sentiment, " it is good for us to be here." So true to fact is the declaration of David, " before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word." By sending affliction, God also introduces into the mind a seriousness of thought, a soberness of reflection,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1828 - 482 páginas
...was good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." And again " Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word." Think about your soul while in health, and then neither affliction, nor even death itself can hurt... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 páginas
...Tatnai the governor's opposing the Jews, wrought for their advantage in the end.—Ezra v. vi. 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, О Lord. Thou in faithfulness... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 páginas
...wall, that she shall not be able to find her paths."—And as restorers—Thus David says, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." I was sick; he bled me; and I recovered.—And as probations—to evince and display the reality and... | |
 | John Collinson - 1830 - 468 páginas
...uses of reformation, began to be understood, according to the Psalmist's pious sentiment, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word V The impressions made by this salutary lesson were very much strengthened by the exhortations and... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 páginas
...from above ;"—' It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might learn Thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word.' Happy, thrice happy Christian, thus to be taught of God : thus threading, as it were, the mazes of... | |
 | 1830 - 370 páginas
...their affliction they will seek me early!' accordance with this is the testimony of David. ' BeforeI was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word.' And the consolation of the Hebrew converts is equally to the point. ' Now no chastening for the present... | |
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they often prove our choicest mercies: so David expresses himself—Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. (Psalm cxix. 
