 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...th}' law ! I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. Thy words were found, and I did cat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." Job, xxiii. 12. Ps. cxix. 11. Jer. xv. 16. Thus the holy scriptures are made pleasant and profitable... | |
 | John Taylor - Atonement - 1809 - 312 pages
...and you will find, that the events it reveals will occasion a mixture of joy and grief. Jer. xv. 16, Thy words were found, and I did eat them : and thy word was unto me, the joy and rejoicing of my heart. Prov. ix. 3, 4, 5, 6, Wisdom, or the doctrine of truth and holiness, crieth upon the highest... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Calvinism - 1810 - 418 pages
...out of thy law—My foul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times—Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart—Thy jlatutes have been my fong in the houfe of my pilgrimage—The law of thy mouth is better... | |
 | Robert Traill - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 600 pages
...promise, that hath fed and feasted thy faith .' Jer. xv. 16. Tfiy -wordi -were found, and I did eat tkemi and thy word -was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart i for I am called by thy name, 0 Lord God of hosti. Have you not sometimes got the door of faith opened,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...feeds and feasts sweetly upon them; no honey to the mouth so sweet as the words of life to the soul. " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." " My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: so shall... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...to do the will of our heavenly Father, it is our highest enjoyment, and, as Jeremiah, we can say, " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and Thy word...was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." To know by happy experience that we shall go to heaven becanse heaven is come to us, is a source of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...hidden and unswept corners of our own hearts ; being far from the state of the Prophet, who says, " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and Thy Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." We eat the Word of God when we live by it. In the Sermon on the Mount, we are told that... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...persecutors ; take me not away in thy longsuffering : know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy...rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 [ sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced ; I sat alone because... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Regeneration (Theology) - 1815 - 342 pages
...ofGod. You know with what relish the saints of old «pake of it. Thy rvordswere found, says the Prophet, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine Jiearl (1). Thy statutes, says the Psalmist, are more to be desired than gold, yeai than much fine... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...Promises are a cordial, administering the richest consolation. " I had fainted unless I had believed." " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." — Divine ordinances are wisely adapted to the same end. The Lord's Supper is a feast, a feast for... | |
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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. 
