 | bp. George Heorne - Bible - 1802 - 562 pages
...enjoy in private, the more exalted pleafures of abftinence, meditation, and prayer. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy Jiatutes. God's ftatutes are beft learned in the fchool of affliction, becaufe by affliftion the great... | |
 | William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...has learned by experience how to. estimate their worth. He can 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.' He knows it is ' needful that he should sometimes be in... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...study of thy law. They think that their prosperity 71 is ti ue happiness : but I can say, [It is] good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes ; learn t/iem bet72 ter, and observe them more diligently. The law of thy mouth [is] better, that is,... | |
 | Matthew Young (bp. of Clonfert) - 1806 - 404 pages
...with my whole heart. % 70. Their heart is as fat as lard, but my delight is in thy law. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy ftatutes. G g 72. The law of thy mouth is better unto me, than thoufands of gold and filver. Tod. 73.... | |
 | Alexander Geddes - Bible - 1807 - 290 pages
...whole heart. 70 tO. Their heart is curdled like milk : lut I delight in thy law. 71 tO. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 tO. Better to me is the law of thy mouth, than thousands of gold and silver. JOD. 73 \ Thy hands... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1808 - 402 pages
...danger and of their want. SERMON XXX1I1. THIS LIFE A STATE OF PROBATION. • PSALM cix. 71. " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. " OF the various views, under which human life has been considered, no one seems so reasonable, as... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...their utility. " Before I was afflicted, I went astray : but no\r " have I kept thy word." " It is good for me that '•** -I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy sta" totes.*1 He .had good reason, therefore, to subjoift, " I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 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... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...and instead of long life on earth, he giveth them eternal lite in heaven. Psalm cxix. 71, It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Isa. Ivii. 1, The righteous perisheth, and merciful men are taken away from the evil to come. 1 John... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...Ps. cxix. 6J1, 71. ' Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I have kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.' Hos. v. 14, 15. ' I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
