 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 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... | |
 | Nicholas Bownd - 1817 - 158 pages
...the same upon good trial, that they found it to be so in themr selves, as David saith (Psal. 119, v. 71), It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn thy statutes : and before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word (Psal. 66)... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 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... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 576 pages
...and rich wines, 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 - Sermons, English - 1818 - 554 pages
...righteously, and godly in this 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.... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 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... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease : but I delight in thy law. 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. o EVENING PRAYER. JOET.... | |
 | Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...IMPORTANT SUBJKCTS. 107 lore 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." Christian contentment also implies a willingness to do the will of God. 1 can, saith the apdstle, do... | |
 | Francis Asbury - 1821 - 420 pages
...truth, as if falsehood alone were pleasing. Wednesday 14. I preached at brother Wells!s on " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes :" this cannot be the language of any but gracious souls. Sinners think all these things are against... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
