 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - 488 pages
...iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away sin." David could say, " 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 J have kept thy word." A good man may even glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...who was an eminent prophet and preacher, leaving on record apart of his own experience: It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. From these words I shall take occasion to discourse on the following observation : — SANCTIFIED AFFLICTIONS... | |
 | Isabella Graham - 1816 - 428 pages
...me, O Lord, according to thy word : still he cries, Teach me good judgment and knowledge. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. 1797. I love to feel the kindlings of repentance ; self loathing under a sense of ingratitude ; heart... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - 1817 - 306 pages
...heart, he will, most assuredly, enable you hereafter to say, with the pious Psalmist, " 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. I know, O Lord, that R thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 576 pages
...to enjoy in private the more exalted pleasures of abstinence, meditation, and prayer. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted : that I might learn thy statutes. God's statutes are best learned in the school of affliction, because by affliction the great impediments... | |
 | William Paley - 1818 - 554 pages
...present world. . . . 472 SERMON XXXIII. THIS LIFE A STATE OF PROBATION. PSALM cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy stattttes. . . . . . 491 SERMON XXXIV. THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONE ANOTHER IN A FUTURE STATE. Cox. i. 28.... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...Psalm xxv. 18. c Psalm Ix^i. 80, 81. me to hope ; this is my comfort in my affliction f. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes s. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word h. Hear my cry, O God, attend... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1819 - 342 pages
...thoughtless, and foolish ; and, I dread to think what I might have been, but for this affliction. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I have kept thy word. Blessed is the man whom thou ebastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law.' — We sang and... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 514 pages
...purged, and this is all the fruit to take away sin.'• David could say, " It is good for me that 1 have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes....afflicted I went astray, but now I have kept thy word." A good man may even glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience,... | |
 | Andrew Reed - 1820 - 352 pages
...thoughtless, and foolish ; and, I dread to think what I might have been, but for this affliction. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I have kept thy word. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law.' — We sang and... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
