 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pàgines
...communion with God, than in days and months of sinful indulgence. We can say with David, ': A day in thy courts is better than a thousand ; I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness." A good hope through grace, a knowledge... | |
 | 1814
...fainteth for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."- — " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness §." If these were the feelings and desires... | |
 | 1813 - 996 pàgines
...give ear, O GoJ of Jacob." Look with pity on the darkness of my soul, now banished from thy house; " for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be only a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell" in state and splendour " in the teats of... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pàgines
...tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts ! Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ; they will be still praising thee. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Ps. xxvii. 4. xxxiv. 4. 11. Here it... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pàgines
...sometimes has in God, he prefers far before all the pleasures of sin, Psalm Ixxxiv. 10. " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." A saint thus prefers God before all things... | |
 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pàgines
...in their own minds. He expresses the highest regard for the worship of God, when he says, " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand: I had rather be a door-keeper," or I had rather sit. upon the door threshold, I had rather sit in the lowest' place, or be employed... | |
 | 1810 - 722 pàgines
...his public testimony in Hammersmith. In the morning he addressed his auditory from Psalm 84, 10. " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." In the afternoon his discourse was... | |
 | 1810 - 724 pàgines
...his public testimony in Hammersmith. In the morning he addressed his auditory from Psalm 84, 10. " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." In the afternoon his discourse was... | |
 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 pàgines
...xxvii. 4. and when they obtain communion with him, they all say as one did, Psal. Ixxxiv. 10. A day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the home of niy God, than to dwell in the tents of -wickedness. He was a great man, and a great saint,... | |
 | James CHURCHILL (of Henley.) - 1811 - 212 pàgines
...religious exercises ; and can truly say, from our enjoyments in God's ordinances, for a day in thy tourts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper...dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalm Ixxxiv. 10. Holy principles, as they are brought into suitable exercise, must produce a very powerful effect upon... | |
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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 
