 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : When I awake, I am still with thee.  The philosphy of religion - Page 47by Thomas Dick - 1840Full view - About this book
 | George Horne - Bible - 1833 - 438 pages
...precious also are thy thoughts unto, or, concerning, me, О God ! How great is the sum of them ! 18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee." From the wonders of God's forming hand, the Psalmist proceeds... | |
 | 1834 - 606 pages
...suffering saints, let us strike our harps with David, and sing: ' How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee. How excellent is thy loving kindness, О God ! therefore the... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - Conduct of life - 1834 - 204 pages
...we wonder not that the Psalmist should have exclaimed, — " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee!" With the thoughts and counsels of Jehovah in his mind, " he... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 326 pages
...therefore frequent ? Could you not say with David, " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O Lord, how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake I am still with thee." I remember thy holy and active zeal : — how you abounded in... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Bible - 1834 - 528 pages
...remembrance, we should be surprised to see how their numbers would multiply, till we were ready to say — " If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." 1 And truly such recollections would come up as a sweet savour to God "by Christ Jesus ; " 2 while... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...psalmist frequently notices this as the property of love to God. " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake I am still with thee. O God, thou art my God ; early will I seek thee ; my soul thirsteth... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...for so he giveth his beloved sleep. — Psalm cxxvii. 1, 2. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee. — . cxxxix. 17, 18. Let my prayer be set forth before thee... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 598 pages
...are. Jane. We cannot count them. Mamma. No ; and David says, " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them ! If I should...count them, they are more in number than the sand." Psalm cxxxix. 17, 18. Is it not wonderful that the great Being who has formed us loves us so tenderly,... | |
 | John Howe - Puritans - 1835 - 662 pages
...that are suitable to serious thoughts of God. " How precious (says the Psalmist) are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sands : when I awake I am still with thee," Psal. cxxxix. 17, 18. These thoughts of God, of which the... | |
 | Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches." — " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God I how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee." Whatever the subject of your meditation may be, content not yourselves... | |
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