...well as Luther, may call affliction one of the best schoolmasters; and with David may say, " Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word." Many thousand recovered sinners may cry, " O healthful sickness ! O comfortable sorrows ! O gainful...

...the right of the poor. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Let,...

...therefore, and washed, and came seeing. John ix. 6, 7. And they followed him.] See ehap. viii. 15. Before I w it the day of salvation), giving no offence in any thing, ft. cxix. 67. The law of thy mouth it better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Ps. cxix. 72....

...God for them, since we have his own testimony of the benefit which he derived from them, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word : " ' we have his determination to ' give thanks always for all things,' when he says, " / will bless...

...visitations; " 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." And if so holy and pious a man as David, (though he once greatly fell,) found affliction to be necessary...

...religious duties ; and can say with David—whose heart was thus purified by suffering— " before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word V Let not, therefore, trials like these for a moment lead us to doubt the loving-kindness of the Lord,...

...charms of music, X\ve In view of the trials incident to life, we hear the Psalmist exclaim "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." This seems to be the lamentable condition of man. When rolling in the calm tide of uninterrupted rejoicing...

...How many perhaps amongst us must say, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted; for before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word e ."] We are further informed concerning, II. The way in which his repentance shewed itself— [Affliction...

...purified. In truth, the experience of multitudes resembles that of David, when he says, " Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word'." It is by means of affliction that God brings us to consider our ways: by means of it, also, he humbles...

...Ixvi. 10.) Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of Thy law. 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, that...