 | Ashbel Green - Catechisms - 1829 - 440 pages
...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 - 1070 pages
...me good judgment and knowledge : for I have believed thy commandments. timony of thy mouth. LAMED. o walk m them ; then will I perform my word with thee* which I sp 89 For ever, О LORD, thy word word. is s'.'ttlfil in heaven. 68 Thon art good, and doest SO Thy faithfulness... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...above ;" — ' It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might learn Thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word.' Happy, thrice happy Christian, thus to be taught of God : thus threading, as it were, the mazes of... | |
 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...amends it, and treasures up the correction against its repetition. Thus he can say with David, Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word. For this reason it is, that the afflictions and other sufferings GOD sends upon his people and servants,... | |
 | Tracts - 1830 - 370 pages
...affliction they will seek me early!' In accordance with this is the testimony of David. ' Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept thy word.' And the consolation of the Hebrew converts is equally to the point. ' Now no chastening for the present... | |
 | Christian life - 1830 - 104 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 606 pages
...and praised and honoured him that livethfor ever ; so David himself, Before, said he, Ps. 0xix.67. / was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. It is that whereby God doth prepare men, and doth entitle them to the blessed rewards hereafter : •... | |
 | Rev. Thomas Stanley Monck (the younger.) - Sermons - 1831 - 186 pages
...myself and repent in dust and ashes." David also acknowledges the benefit of afflictions, t" 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 the prophet Jonah,... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1831 - 564 pages
...DAY 23. O teach me true understanding and knowledge ; for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word. Thou art good and doest good ; O teach me thy statutes. The proud have forged a lie against me ; but... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1831 - 152 pages
...the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul." Psalm «iv. 17—19. " 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." Psalm cxix. 67,... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
