 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pàgines
...he says : " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." And then he adds, " Thou art good and doest good : teach me thy statutes." Thus acknowledging the goodness... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pàgines
...alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word 1 Or have you rather dealt proudly — despised reproof — sinned against judgments — and thus been... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pàgines
...enabled to amend what had been hitherto amiss, and to advance in piety. As he says, ver. 67, " before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." There were errors and faults in his conduct, in the time of ease and prosperity, which afflictions... | |
 | 1827 - 392 pàgines
...alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word ? Or have you rather dealt proudly — despised reproof- — sinned against judgments — and thus... | |
 | 1827 - 566 pàgines
...more clearly and fully taught than this, in the sacred oracles. Thus the holy psalmist — " 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" — And thus, extensively,... | |
 | 1828 - 580 pàgines
...In David's trial, and in its beneficial results, we see a verification of his own words : " Before 1 was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Ps. cxix. <J7. We must not, however, infer ironi David's case, that ho who is afflicted the most has... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pàgines
...be in want. How many, now living, can say, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted : before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word!" You had health: but sickness invaded your frame ; and you have been made to possess months of vanity,... | |
 | John Stanford - 1829 - 474 pàgines
...Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me ; for before 1 was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept thy word. I therefore " At this statement, Mr. Sharpless grew so much irritated, that he warmly said, " Do let... | |
 | Ashbel Green - 1829 - 440 pàgines
...more clearly and fully taught than this, in the sacred oracles. Thus the holy psalmist — " 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" — and thus, extensively,... | |
 | 1830 - 104 pàgines
...for pardon, or for the grace of the Holy Spirit? and I believe every sincere Christian will confess with David, Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. If, then, sorrow and affliction are our medicines, let us take from the hand of the Lord the cup of... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
