...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 ; li. 10, " Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not...

...hope ts in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 r him : behold, his reward is with him, and his work befor 10 Remove thy stroke away fnwi me : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes...

...so to good Eli — " It is the Lord; let him do what seemeth him good." And it was so to David — " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." O let it be for ever remembered, that he " whose name alone is Jehovah, is the most High over all the...

...this glorious position — Tranquil to sit at Jesu's feet, Tltouffh sorrows fix them there. And to say, " I was dumb ; I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." And to remind them that all their conflicts end in eternal rest. A pilgrim passing through, and pressing...

...peace even from God,' said David, when he had been suffering under the chastisement of the Lord, ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' Ps. xxxix. 2. 9. ' Why do we sit still,' cried the mournful Jeremiah, * assemble yourselves, and let...

...is unto tumultuating thoughts, and vexatious disquietments ; the soul is silent. Psal. xxxix. 9. ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' He redoubles, the expression, whereby he sets out his endeavour to quiet and still his soul in the...

...cases, " wherefore didst thou doubt ?" Let us learn to imitate the submission of the devout Psalmist, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it ;" or rather, to adopt the words of our blessed Lord himself, " Even so Father, for so it seemed good...

...is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish. ' 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the § blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes...

...from his mouth. With the most appropriate truth she might have adopted the words of the Psalmist, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it." " I was as one that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs." The trials with which she was assailed,...

...afflicted children can hush to silence the rising murmur of the soul, and adopt the Psalmist's language, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." Psalm xxxix. 6. They have in the prophets, " an example of suffering affliction and of patience ; "...