 | Christian life - 1879 - 422 pages
...with the Psalmis*, ' 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.' " And now, reader, you begin to comprehend my parable, and to see its drift. Are you in affliction,... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...Job xxxvi. 8 — 10. Before I was afflicted, I weutastray: but now have 1 kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes, O Lord. Thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. — Ps, cxix. 67. 71. 75. They that sow in tears, shall... | |
 | John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...the Almighty. Psal. xciv. 12. blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah. cxix. 71. it is good for me that I have been (Afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Prov. i. 23. turn you at my reproof. iii. 11, 12. my son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah, neither... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...was an eminent prophet and preacher, leaving on record a part of his own experience : ' It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes.' From these words I shall take occasion to discourse on the following observation: — SANCTIFIED AFFLICTIONS... | |
 | Amelia Opie - Children - 1825 - 124 pages
...bringing her to her God, and have enabled her to say to him, in the words of the psalmist, "it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." Thus, then, you see, dear children, that a time of worldly pleasures may be called one's BETTER DAYS,... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...look up, when smarting under the stroke of God's afflicting rod, and with humility exclaim, It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Many, doubtless, are the advantages resulting from Sanctified afflictions : they compel us to look... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease ; /mi I delight in thy law. 71 It is good 4 For the day of vengeance ii in mine heart, and the year of my red 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. JOD. 73 Thy hands have... | |
 | 1825 - 366 pages
...whole, Job v. 17, 18. 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 know, O Lord, thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me, Ps. cxix.... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 588 pages
...afflicted, saith the Psalmist, / went " Heb. xii. 5, 6. astray: but now I have kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes* . No chastening for the present, saith the Apostle, seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless,... | |
 | 1842 - 982 pages
...availed himself of the opportunity to preach the sermon here published, from Ps. cxix. 71" It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." To it is prefixed an essay, of which the design is to search out, examine, and refute the subtle sophistry... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
