...the house of God, or to produce late and lame service ! Lady Burford could say, with the prophet, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." Jer. xv. 16. She has frequently expressed, how much -she has been animated and comforted...

...all. If he should slay me ten thousand times ten thousand times, I'll trust." He often repeated, " ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.' " Exhorting one to be diligent in seeking God, he said, " It is no easy thing to be a Christian,...

...will trust." He often repeated Jer. xv. 1C. Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy toord was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. When exhorting one to diligence, he said, " It is no easy thing to be a Christian. For me I have got...

...converted into food and nourishment to the mind. Thus, Jeremiah pathetically pleads, in prayer to GOD,—" Thy words were found, and " I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the " joy and rejoicing of my heart y :" and Ezekiel expressly declares, that he was commanded to " eat the roll" of his prophecy...

...healthful period, and under his long affliction it was his best comforter. He could say with Jeremiah, Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. It was his constant practice, whenever it was read in the family circle, to ofiier an ejaculatory...

...of the word of God to the nourishment and exhilaration which food affords to the exhausted body : " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." — There is great beauty and propriety in the three series of the Apocalypse being addressed to the...

...A gracious heart loves every thing that hath the stamp of God upon it. The word is his delight—" Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart," Jer. xv. 16. The Sabbath is his delight—" Jf thou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure...

...persecutors ; take me not away in thy longsuffering : know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced ; I sat alone, because of thy hand : for...

...psalmist and the prophet : How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. And hence, too. the reverence of believers for the holy scripture. It is the language and...

...food ; indeed, it was with them, in their measure, as it was with the Prophet Jeremiah, where he says, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." It is evident, they received it " not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word...