 | Thomasen Head - Children - 1811 - 48 pages
...great and sore afflictions have brought me nearer to my God ; so that I can say with, David " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept...been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." I have inquired seriously into the cause of my afflictions, and liar."! sought why God should thus... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 872 pages
...not that which always best, promotes tiie growth of piety. " Before 1 was afflicted/' says David, " I went astray, but now have I kept thy word.*' It is true, indeed, of religion, that all lier ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paitis peace; but,... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Prayers - 1812 - 188 pages
...taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Ps. Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now I have kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I jmight learn thy statutes. I know O Lord that thy judgments are right, and that thou in mercy hast... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.' And says the Psalmist, Psal. cxix. 71. ' It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes.' 2. God can fully satisfy the desire of the soul, and in him it may rest with complacency and delight".... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...gratefully acknowledges, that he had found peculiar benefit from the afflictive hand of God "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 I have kept thy word." • God has often reclaimed,... | |
 | 1812 - 680 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Brewster - 1813 - 404 pages
...corruptible creatures to the glorioirs liberty of the sons of God. " Before I " was troubled, I went wrong, but " now have I kept thy word. It is " good for me that I have been in " trouble, that I may learn thy sta" tutes. I know, O Lord! that t-iy " judgements are... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Psal. cxix. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes. 1 Cor. xv. 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have... | |
 | 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... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
