 | William Hull (perpetual curate of St. Gregory's, Norwich.) - 1835 - 238 páginas
...substantial happiness that is not connected with devotedness of the heart to the will of Heaven. " Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept Thy word. It was good for me that I have been afflicted!" To those who have experienced the power of religious... | |
 | 1835 - 334 páginas
...well as Luther, may call affliction one of his 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, " 0 healthful sickness! O comfortable sorrows! 0 gainful losses!... | |
 | Samuel BOLTON (D.D.), Selina MARTIN - 1835 - 200 páginas
...in love ; to make us partakers of his holiness here, and his glory hereafter. David says, " Before T was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." He also said that it was good for him to have been afflicted. Every child of God experiences' the same.... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1835 - 358 páginas
...prodigal in the parable, of his Father's house. Many a child of God, can say with David, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word." 7 Many a careless sinner, under the softening touch of sickness or sorrow, has given way to the influence... | |
 | 1830 - 820 páginas
...readiest and surest way to ultimate concurrence in the blessed experiencf of the Psalmist—" Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Others there are, again, who comt under neither of the characters I have described ; whose situation,... | |
 | Richard Lloyd - 1835 - 322 páginas
...which otherwise they are too apt to hold merely in theory. Hence the Psalmist declares, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word," and again, "It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." And in the... | |
 | Franklin Langworthy - 1836 - 252 páginas
...Whom the Lord loveth he chastenetbi and scourgeth every son he receiveth. Psalm cxix. 67 : Before I was afflicted I went astray! but now have I kept thy word. -%%>*• 29th. TEXTS IN FAVOR OF UNIVERSAL HOLINESS AND HAPPINESS. 1st Cor. xv. 22 : For as in Adam... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1836 - 548 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... | |
 | John Flavel - 1836 - 476 páginas
...thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, was sent to buffet me," 2 Cor. xii. 7. So David, " Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word," Psa. cxix. 67. Afflictions are used by God, as thorns by husbandmen, to stop 4. You have a further... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1836 - 544 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... | |
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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. 
