| Henry Belfrage - Bible - 1822 - 246 pages
...men, who describe their gracious attainments by the temper of children. " Lord," saith the Psalmist, " my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty, neither...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me ; I have surely behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother, — my soul is... | |
| Charles Bradley (Vicar of Glasbury.) - 1823 - 370 pages
...spirit of this short but lovely Psalm, and copy after the example which it setteth before them.] 1. ' LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty;...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.' Pride beginneth in the ' heart,' and discovereth itself in the ' eyes,' the countenance, and the carriage... | |
| Baptists - 1823 - 486 pages
...this afiair. His way may differ from that which I should choose : but let it be so 1 Surely I hatie behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even аз а weaned child." A spiritual mind has something of the nature of the SENSITIVE-PLANT» " I shall... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1823 - 494 pages
...nothing shall offend them." And this peace and quietness he says he derived from his filial piety. " Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother. My rfoul is even as a weaned child." Solomon says, " A good man shall be satisfied from, himself." And... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...nothing shall offend themAnd this peace and quietness he says he derived froffl his filial piety. " Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother. "/ soul is even as a weaned child." Solomon says, " A good man shall be satisfied from himself." And... | |
| 1823 - 154 pages
...man. (33 Job, 17.) 16. T•Jm:< was ll,i} I 'siiliai.it enabled to declare his humility before God? Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself iu great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child... | |
| Baptists - 1823 - 458 pages
...way may differ from that which I should choose: but let it be su! Surely I have behaved und qmeted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as « weaned child." A spiritual mind has something ot the nature of the SENSITIVE-PLANT. " I shall smart... | |
| 1824 - 570 pages
...bold speculations which, to the Christian, are forbidden fruit. Under this impression, David says, " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul ia even as a weaned child." Psal. cxxxi. t, 2 — To the same purport, also, is the injunction of Paul... | |
| Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...and striving to climb to objects high above its reach. Well is it for those who can say with truth, " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me," Psa. cxxxi. 1. Rapid was the rise of Napoleon, but much more rapid his decline. War was at once his... | |
| Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 686 pages
...xviii. 3, 4. This was also the temper of David: "LoRD, my heart is not haughty; surely I have behaved myself as a child that is weaned of his mother; my soul is even as a weaned child. Ps. cxxxi. 1, 2. The heart that used to have no delight in communion with God, but lived as without... | |
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