...elevation. He was highly exalted, but God gave him humility, and we hear him saying, (Ps. cxxxi.) " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty,...of his mother, my soul is even as a weaned child." This very beautiful language shows his submission to all the dispensations of Divine Providence, that...

...obeyed by me in this affair! His way may differ from that which I should choose : but let it be so ! Surely, I have behaved and quieted myself as a child...of his mother : my soul is even as a weaned child." A spiritual mind has something of the nature of the SENSITIVE-PLANT. "I shall smart if I touch this...

...sceptres. Thus it is with the children of God, they are content with their stations, and can say, " My heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : neither...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me," Psalm cxxxi. 1. A child of God will not make so much stir for the riches and honours of the world as...

...iniquities. PSALM CXXXI. tí A song of degrees of David. с Т -ORÍ), my heart is not haughJLj ly, ers of lies, ye arr all physicians of no value. В О that ye would altogether hold your peace : an d 2 Surely I have behaved ami quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his moiher : my soul is even...

...it not wise, therefore, yet further to adopt the words of the Psalmist, and say respecting them, " Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me ? " . God controls all things, yet without being the author of evil : surely scripture proclaims this,...

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...furnished us in a well known case, recorded in 2 Sam. xii. 15—24. Such an one might well say — " Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned ; my soul is even as a weaned child." Finally, if nothing in the foregoing considerations appear satisfactory,...

...4. raised him, and felt more solicitous to deserve than to advance it. And is this your spirit ? " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. I have surely behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother : my soul is even...

...CXXXI. 1 fktñtí, prafeMinr AM humility, 3 sthvrteth Ifrttetto hope in Go£ Л Soncof degree* of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother : my soul « even...

...brought into tender favour, and indulged with sweet communion, with the Lord; the poor soul is like "a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child," Psalm cxxxi. 2. Ahimaaz. I know what that is—my soul has had a sad experience of it: to be debarred...