...mountains and the, valley of the shadow of death, fire and water, evil report and good report ; by which things men live, and in all these things is the life of our spirits. They give us feeling and promote appetite ; and make us sick of a body of sin, of self,...

...walls resound with our thanksgiving. We shall say with Hezekiah, A great bitterness is come upon me, but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. We shall say with the prophet Jonah, Thy billows and thy waves have passed over me .- then I said,...

...hath done it : I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 16 О LORD, by (¿íese t do that which is right in his sight, чгн! wilt...his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I wi 17 Behold, for peace 1 had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul deliveredit from thepit...

...Hezekiah's writing, and that is, the assurance he had of his being pardoned and forgiven, " Behold (he says) for peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast, in love to my soul, cast all my sins behind thy back." This is generally the language of a pardoned and accepted sinner....

...unto me, and himself bath done it : I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of tny soul. 16 ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid : and I wi tbe life of my spirit : so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, for peace I had great...

...speaks may represent his doctrines. We read of Wisdom's bread ; and Hezekiah says of divine truths, " O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my soul." The doctrines of Christ sanctify, invigorate, and delight the faculties of the soul, and it...

...with God ? Then r we say with David, " It is good for us we have been afflicted;" and with Hezekiah, "Thou hast, in love to my soul, delivered it from the pit of destruction." DIRECT. II. Make conscience of offering to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, upon his...

...the present century. London, March 18th, 1872. POETEY. " THANKSGIVING DAY: " FEBRUABY 27ra, 1872. " 0 LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit : BO wilt Thoa recover me, and make me to live." (Isaiah xxxviii. 16.) AND shall the King die now :•...

...man no more with the inhabitants of the world." But I can now add, with the same good man, " O Lord, thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption ; thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back : for the grave cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate...

...man no more with the inhabitants of the world." But I can now add, with the same good man, " O Lord, thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption ; thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back : for the grave cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate...