| Thomas Shillitoe - Quakers - 1839 - 466 pages
...declared, (Psalm, i. 9, 10,) " I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not 'with my tongue, 1 will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." For it is only as this disposition of mind is abode in, that we can reasonably expect Divine regard... | |
| 1885 - 302 pages
...NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THIN-OS, CHARITY. Vol. VIII. MAY, 1869. No. 89THE BRIDLED MOUTH. " I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." — Psa. xxxix. 1. THE faculty of speech and the gift of language form a grand distinction between... | |
| Harvey Newcomb - Christian life - 1841 - 416 pages
...especially in the presence of the unconverted. " The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity." David says, " I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." I do not mean that you should ever engage in any sinful conversation in the presence of Christians.... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...talketh of judgment. — Ps. xxxvii. 30; cxix. 46. 172. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. — Ps. xxxix. 1 ; cxli. 3. Thou gavest thy mouth to evil ; and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1843 - 314 pages
...aright, But the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue ; I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me. 8. Whoso privily si and ere th hisneignbor, him will 1 cutoff. He that goeth about as a talebearer... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 712 pages
...recorded of King David is another. Psal. xxxix. 1, 2, " I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good." Even from good — that is, he was so watchful... | |
| Charles Simmons - Bible - 1844 - 552 pages
...evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Ps. 39. 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. Pr. 4. 24. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Pr. 13. 3. He that... | |
| George Horne - Bible - 1845 - 588 pages
...as a funeral is indeed the best comment upon it. 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. The Psalm begins abruptly with the result of a meditation on the narrow, slippery, and dangerous paths... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 pages
...offend : and, / said (saith he again) I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue ; I mil keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." And thus to maintain a constant guard over his heart and ways, thus in consequence thereof to curb... | |
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