| Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 onth Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son o mine heart : for "I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 608 pages
...much tine gold ; yea, sweeter also than honey, and the honey-comb." " O," says Jeremiah, " thy word* were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto mg the joy and rejoicing of my heart," 3dly, Not only every word, but every thought of the Bridegroom,... | |
| Henry Jones - Bible - 1837 - 164 pages
...sweetness in it? And could she not then adopt, with sincerity, the inspired forms of her devotions ? " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. "f "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether ; more to be desired are they, than... | |
| Church of England preacher - 1837 - 632 pages
...upon which he did not fear to pass through even the valley of the shadow of death. Jeremiah says, " Thy words were found and I did eat them ; and thy...word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." " Oh !" said the Psalmist, " oh ! how I love thy law !" And you ought to love this word, to read it,... | |
| Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1837 - 422 pages
...read the sacred Scriptures, that, with our dying breath, we may be able to say with the prophet ; " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." Jer. 15 : 16. Letter VI. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS STATED. The faith of a true Christian... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...thy long-suffering, and p atienco, bears with them, I, in the mean ttme, be murdered by them. XV. 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. So soon as thy words were delivered... | |
| John Warburton - 1837 - 154 pages
...grapes, which my soul could eat and digest. O how precious did I find the language of the prophet, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of iny heart." I had now everything that my heart desired; plenty of provisions, a comfortable house,... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...describe him positively as to his dispositions towards the law of God, ver. 2. Like Jeremiah, he can say, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart;" and like Paul, he delights " in it after the inner man." Amidst all the cares, and duties,... | |
| John Howe - Puritans - 1838 - 662 pages
...then extant ; and was sweeter to him than honey to his taste, ver. 103. Thy words (saith Jeremiah) were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, Jer. xv. 16. The word of God is then like to be done, when there is so dear a love to it; and the soul... | |
| Arthur Triggs - 1838 - 172 pages
...but I searched the Bible, and rested not until I found them; and I can now say with the prophet, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for 1 am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts" (Jer. xv. 16). The health of my body... | |
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