 | Thomasen Head - Children - 1811 - 48 pages
...say with, David " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word : It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." I have inquired seriously into the cause of my afflictions, and liar."! sought why God should thus... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...gratefully acknowledges, that he had found peculiar benefit from the afflictive hand of God "It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Before I was afflicted, I went astray: but now I have kept thy word." • God has often reclaimed,... | |
 | 1812 - 680 pages
...to duty those, whom the bounty of Providence could not keep in the ways of the Lord ; " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn 'thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. If they are bound in fetters and... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.' And says the Psalmist, Psal. cxix. 71. ' It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes.' 2. God can fully satisfy the desire of the soul, and in him it may rest with complacency and delight".... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Psal. cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes. 1 Cor. xv. 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...and glory henceforth and for ever! SERMON XXIX. THE USES OF AFFLICTION. PSALM cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. " IT is good for me that I have been afflicted !" This is not the language of nature ; this is not... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pages
...concerning the permissions of Providence, and often be able to say with the Psalmist, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word." But suppose we are unable to discover... | |
 | John Colquhoun - Christian life - 1814 - 446 pages
...word hath quickened me z." " Thy testimonies also are my delight, and my counsellors *." *' It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes b." 7. God inflicteth trouble of spirit, upon many of •his children, to the end that, by supporting... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...experience of thousands: " Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." I believe, that most can recollect more than one instance in which affliction has reclaimed them from... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
