 | Portier - 1828 - 528 pages
...deprived of the heart of a man, and receiving for a while, and for his correction, that of a beast ? So foolish was I, and ignorant, I was as a beast before tbee. Psalm 73. 22. Br: i: tie g»m.. time I should have great hopes that :wirii tie end of the seventh... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1828 - 506 pages
...receiving the blessings of the gospel. But he is not the only one who has had to acknowledge, " how foolish was I, and ignorant ; I was as a beast before thee." While these things were opening to his mind, the regiment marched to Dublin ; the little band was scattered... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...awakest, thou shall despise their image. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. 22 So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee : thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shall guide... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1831 - 456 pages
...awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant : I was as a beast before thee."— Ps. Ixxiii. 2—22. Let the people of God, therefore, who, assailed with this temptation in their privations, calamities,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 668 pages
...neither doth a fool understand this :' and as he doth acknowlege himself on one occasion to have been ; ' so foolish was I, and ignorant ; I was as a beast before thee.' Others pretend to consider much, and seem very inquisitive ; yet (being misguided by vain prejudicesor... | |
 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - Sermons, English - 1830 - 540 pages
...neither doth a fool understand this :' and as he doth acknowlege himself on one occasion to have been ; ' so foolish was I, and ignorant ; I was as a beast before thee.' Others pretend to consider much, and seem very inquisitive ; yet (being misguided by vain prejudicesor... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...i. 21, 22 ; and still the best of us (if we be but ourselves) may take up that complaint of Asaph, " So foolish was I, and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee," Psa. Ixxiii. 22 ; and of Agur the son of Jakeh, " Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1841 - 628 pages
...increase in riches. When I thought to know this, if. was too painful for me, until I understood their end; so foolish was I and ignorant, I was as a beast before thce." Psalm Ixxiii. Thus it has been, is now, and ever shall be in this fallen state, in which the... | |
 | Timothy Merritt - Future punishment - 1832 - 252 pages
...thinking it in " vain that he had washed his hands in innocency," he made this reflection upon himself, " So foolish was I, and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee." I then confirm this construction of the psalm by the cases of two prosperous wicked men in the Gospel.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pages
...be reconciled with each other. For instance, the Psalmist, in the very words before my text, says, " So foolish was I and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee." Yet behold, in the text itself, he speaks as one enjoying the sublimest communion with his God, and... | |
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Nevertheless I am continually with thee : thou hast holden me by my right hand. 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 
