 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 pages
...rooms, when the house is all on fire. But a public spirit saith, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6. His love is to the church as the spouse of Christ, and as to the body of which... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 548 pages
...rooms, when the house is all on fire. But a public spirit saith, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ;" Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6. His love is to the church as the spouse of Christ, and as to the body of which... | |
 | Grierson - Jerusalem - 1830 - 318 pages
...remembrance of the desolation of Jerusalem. ' If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning ; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.' It baa become an ordinance of their rabbins, in some places, that when a man builds a new house, he... | |
 | Baptists - 1830 - 396 pages
...from the interest of his cause ; that our vow is, " If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." Thus burying our own petty interests in the cause of Christ, let us go forth, with the resolution of... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 612 pages
...judgment; (Matt. xii. 36 ;) say then, as David, when you are in conference, "Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chiefest mirth ;" (Psal. cxxxvii. 5, 6 ;) and then you shall find the truth of that, " A wholesome... | |
 | Edward Payson - Sermons, American - 1831 - 406 pages
...he sees any idol preferred before him. The psalmist could say, If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning; if I do not remember...mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Similar must be our feelings with respect to Christ, if we would enjoy his presence. We must prefer... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...for the peace of Jerusalem ; they shall prosper that love thee. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." If to David, and other godly persons, the land of Israel was dear, our land should be so to us. Did... | |
 | Rev. John BARR (of Glasgow.) - Christian life - 1831 - 348 pages
...citizens of Zion every one of them can cordially join in saying, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy."* — The degree of concern experienced by the children of God for the spiritual interests of Christ's... | |
 | Village Pastor - Christian life - 1831 - 206 pages
...captives who were mingling their tears with the waters of Babylon: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ; if I do not remember...mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." You live in a day of wonders. Your being, perhaps, has opened in the millennial morn. It is possible... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...Though he himself was advanced and provided for, yet said he, " if I forget thee, О Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember...mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." When the temple was dedicated, Solomon, in his address to God, had thus expressed himself: " If thy... | |
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy... 
