 | 1822 - 550 pàgines
...Indeed.it is good for us, to keep us humble. The royal Psalmist found it so ; for he says, " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word"—" It is good for me to be afflicted," &c. Believers, therefore, welcome the cross, while they still keep the crown in view.... | |
 | W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pàgines
...sanctified affliction? 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. (119 P. 67. 7l.) 8. .Are sorrow and sympathy truly beneficial? .. It is better to go to the house of... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 504 pàgines
...take away his sin." Isa. xxvii. 9. To the same purpose is that place in Psal. cxix. 67, " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." And here it may be asked, On what account afflictions are said to purge away the iniquities of the... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pàgines
...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge ; for I have believed thy commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. • 68 Thou art good, and doest good: teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pàgines
...12.) 7. Did the Psalmist rejoice in sanctified affliction ? Before I was afflicted I went us tray ; but now have I kept thy word. — It is good for me...have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. (119 P. 67, 71.) 8. Are sorrow and sympathy truly beneficial? It is better to go to the house of mourning,... | |
 | John Griscom - 1823 - 532 pàgines
...and nineteenth Psalm, he immediately joined the choir in the seventy-first verse — .' It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes." We arrived at Pavia at ten o'clock, and after dining, called to deliver our letter of introduction... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pàgines
...this present world.— Titus ii. 11, 12. 237 SERMON XXXIII. THIS LIFE A STATE OF PROBATION. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. — Psalm cix, 71. CiT SERMON XXXIV. THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONE ANOTHER IN A FUTURE STATE. Whom we preach,... | |
 | Lydia Wakeman - 1823 - 112 pàgines
...peculiar pleasure.—To a friend she thus writes : " I hope I can say with the Psalmist, " it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." I have indeed been gently dealt with, fortho' I trust sin is daily more exceeding sinful in my eyes,... | |
 | 1879 - 422 pàgines
...our God.' The* when the sickness has done its work he is able to say with the Psalmis*, ' Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept...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, in sickness,... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pàgines
...the saints nearer to God, and to make them more importunate and earnest in prayer with God. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept...have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes* I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I will tear, and... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
