...me, or bowed down in me, as the original has it. So David, when he was under the rod, could say, / was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst...prosperously, would read over the Lamentation of Jeremiah, and who kept his heart tender, humbled, and low. Prosperity does not contribute more to the puffing up...

...hand upon my mouth : once have 1 spoken, but I will not answer,&c. — Jobxl. I — 5. xlii. S — 6. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. — l*s. xxxix. 9. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction...

...bear the due punishment of all our sins at His Father's hands, according to that of the psalmist, " I was dumb, I opened not My mouth ; because Thou didst it." Therefore the prophet immediately subjoins that of His silent carriage to that which He had spoken...

...murmuring in the midst of our greatest troubles and most racking paia : it will cause us to say with David, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it, Psal. xxxix. 9 ; or, if we open our lips, it will be to say, with a blessed servant of God : Lord,...

...was ireached at Staughton, by Mr. Knight, his highly esteemed pastor. Oct. 26, from Psalm xxxix. 9. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." MRS. MARY HENWOOD. THE subject of this paper, Mrs. Mary Henwood, was impressed with eternal things...

...saw it needful to answer the most benevolent ends. She has reason, therefore, to say as David did; " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because THOU didst it." If she can cordially say this; instead of 'refusing to be comforted,' she will, like Job, bless God,...

...which I see not, teach thou me : if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more. — Job xxxiv. 31, 32. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. — Ps. xxxix. 9. Woe to him that strivcth with his Maker, &c. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth...

...in the evil* they suffer, they never fail to feel a quiet and submissive spirit. Hence David said, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." And it was in the exercise of faith, that Job felt and expressed such extraordinary submission and...

...about him ; and whither flies he for a deliverance ? Even to Him whom he had offended. Ver. 9, 10. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it. Remove Thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of Thine hand. We are naturally very partial...

...whensoever he pleases; all wise and good men still saying in such cases with the pious Psalmist, xxxix. 9, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it : and with patient Job, i. 21 ; ii. 10, Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not...