 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1812 - 668 pages
...the Lord ; " 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. If they are bound in fetters and holden in the cords of affliction, then he sheweth them their work,... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...thou, 0 God, hast " created in me a clean heart, and renewed a right spirit within me." " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word;" and therefore " it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." But... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...David gratefully acknowledges thai tie derived real benefit from the divine corrections. "Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and thou in faithfulness hath corrected me." Thus God... | |
 | 1845 - 752 pages
...subject of it would be heard exclaiming, while the sweet tear of penitence moistened his eye, " Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy Word." Then would he find that, "like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...will be — " 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." . Perhaps here there will occur to the minds of some of my hearers, the following question : — Why... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...disposed and 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... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge : for [ have believed thy commandments. 6? 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 me... | |
 | Samuel Seabury - Sermons, American - 1815 - 320 pages
...and Christian virtues do spring. To this truth the Psalmist bore witness, when he said, " 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."* God called his... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
....affliction's fiery furnace. What David says of himself, has been the experience of thousands: " 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." I believe, that most... | |
 | Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. 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. , Remember the word... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
